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Assistant captain Ryan Lannon was the next skater honored, when assistant coach Sean McCann ’94 presented the blueliner with the Ralph “Cooney” Weiland Award for “devotion” and “selfless contribution...
...easier to make money than invest it. Nonetheless, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 38, the basketball superstar for the Los Angeles Lakers, hopes to become a savvy financier. He is now a member of a partnership that includes eight current and former basketball players. Among Abdul-Jabbar's investor mates are Ralph Sampson of the Houston Rockets and Terry Cummings of the Milwaukee Bucks. Their first investment was the $1 million Redmont Hotel in Birmingham, which they are spending nearly $5 million to remodel. A $22 million Los Angeles health club is under construction. The group is also negotiating...
...Reaganauts, having failed to get Congress to enact the conservatives' social agenda, are seeking to build a court lineup that will do the job, just as liberals did in earlier years when they found Congress resistant to their goals. "If the Reagan counterrevolution is to be successful," says Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, "it must be done in the judiciary. That's their highest priority for the next three years...
...rappin' is the latest form of talkin' the blues/ By the bro's from the Bronx in their burgundy shoes./And now their story's on the screen at the Multiplex./ (Ralph Farquhar wrote the script; Michael Schultz he directs.)/ And the boys who made the noise are in their very own show:/ Run-D.M.C., the Fat Boys, Kurtis Blow./ Then there's Blair Underwood, a kind of Poitier hunk,/ And Sheila E. (Prince's princess) in her foppery funk./ Now there've been fights at the Plexes, kids've got out of hand,/ But they must've spiked...
...which cuts made-to-order features for the yupscale market. The inspiration could in part be a White House incumbent, whose folksy nattiness is a considerable part of his charm, but men's clothing is a thriving business. Anyone who is skeptical about this should consult the Ralph Lauren or Giorgio Armani corporate balance sheets or visit the men's floor of any large department store on a Saturday afternoon...