Word: ralph
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...reality, there's not much left of the Comcast ranch to bet. Roberts and his father Ralph, 77, who own 7% of Comcast stock, have spent billions building up a collection of programming and telecom services. The list includes 57% of QVC (home shopping); a 68.8% piece of E! Entertainment (programming); the N.B.A.'s Philadelphia 76ers and the N.H.L.'s Flyers (more programming); a 20% stake in Teleport Communications Group (business telephone service); and a 15% position in Sprint Spectrum (cellular telephones...
Gates and Roberts arrived at this intersection from different directions. Gates dropped out of Harvard and built his mammoth software firm from his innate programming skills. Roberts, a Wharton graduate and the son of a Philadelphia belt manufacturer turned cable entrepreneur, learned his business at his father's side. Ralph Roberts left the belt business in 1962, fearing that beltless trousers would render his product useless. Brian stepped into the president's shoes...
Jennifer Lash wrote six books and bore six children. Her last novel, Blood Ties, written while she was dying of cancer, was rejected by her usual publishers and a string of others, and she died without selling it. But her children, the eldest of whom is actor RALPH FIENNES, weren't about to let it rest at that. While making The English Patient, Fiennes mentioned the book to Patient author Michael Ondaatje, who suggested the actor pitch it to his publisher, who loved it and bought it. Not content with that, half the Fiennes family (sister Sophie and brother Joseph...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Christian Coalition has tapped two naturals to follow Ralph Reed: Randy Tate, a 1994 Gingrich House soldier, will replace Reed as director, and former Reagan Cabinet member Don Hodel will assume Pat Robertson's post as president. The message: to thine own self be true. "The last shred of the non-partisan fig leaf has been destroyed," says TIME's Laurence Barrett. "Both of these guys are even more partisan, and more explicitly so, than Reed." Putting Reed's torch in such hands suggests the coalition is ready to concentrate on its natural constituency -- white, Protestant, conservative...
...Ralph played especially well in the second half of the season, hitting two home runs in the division-clinching series against Dartmouth and adding another one in the series clincher against Princeton. His two Ivy League Player of the Week awards in the last two weeks of the season undoubtedly helped him win the Ivy League Player of the Year award for the 1997 season...