Word: templeton
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...years of covering the religion beat for TIME, Ostling has written or reported on 36 cover stories on religious themes. He has won all six major prizes for religion reporting, including the prestigious Templeton Award. Like Bonfante, he found fresh reasons for optimism about the state of American Catholicism. "I continue to be amazed at the resiliency of this, the largest spiritual community in the world," says Ostling. "What other institution could have survived such turbulence over a generation and survived with loyalties largely intact? Our polling shows the usual wide disagreement with church teachings on hot-button issues...
DIED. JEROME ZIPKIN, 80, social moth; in Manhattan. Loyal, insulting -- often to the same people -- Jerry Zipkin served for half a century as party guest, escort and confidant of socially prominent, financially comfortable women (Betsy Bloomingdale, Pat Buckley). In the '30s his friend Somerset Maugham modeled the snobbish Elliot Templeton of The Razor's Edge on the fashion-obsessed real estate heir. But Zipkin's greatest coup was his relationship with Nancy Reagan. He was with the First Family on the night they captured that title; in the following years, Mrs. Reagan dished and danced with Zipkin so regularly that...
Five others were in serious condition at the same hospital: James Tata, 31, of Fitchburg; John Mead, whose age and address were not known; Cole Lupien, 36, of Templeton; Gary Lusco, 44, of Winchenden; and James McMaster, 18, of Shirley. Tata and McMaster were in the hospital's burn unit...
...Gates really control the Internet? For a variety of reasons-some structural, some cultural-that may not be as easy as it seems. "Microsoft would have a better chance at controlling the weather," says Brad Templeton, president of ClariNet, which makes a nice profit selling news wire services to Internet users. The Internet, he explains, has no central network operating system that Microsoft can patent and control. Moreover, the Internet is devoted to open-that is to say, nonproprietary-software systems. A week after the Internet community discovered that the gif (Graphics Interchange Format) system used to exchange pictures over...
...wonder, then, that the Mexican analyst for the Templeton Funds, Ed Ramos, has put out a buy recommendation on several Mexican companies that he thinks are already irresistibly cheap, including Tel-Mex, the big phone company that's in so many portfolios...