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...vital point is that like any brand, the Virgin label is part illusion. (Did Coke ever really teach the world to sing? Is Virgin Cola anything but another kind of bubbly brown-sugar water packed into bright red cans?) Branson says he's the business world's equivalent of Ralph Nader. His Virgin Atlantic really did innovate business-class air travel and as Virgin Blue airline breaks into the sheltered domestic Australian market, perhaps it will fight for consumers against established interests. But what about when Virgin Direct sells a simple index-tracking investment fund for almost twice the annual...
Clemente's 30-point outburst catapulted the senior forward into fourth on the all-time scoring list. Entering the weekend, Clemente needed just 29 points to pass Ron Mitchell '92 (1,455) and Ralph James...
...father's son. Born in Kannapolis, N.C., in 1951, he didn't take naturally to school--he would drop out in the ninth grade--but loved being around cars. Ralph Earnhardt, known as Ironheart, was a short-track racing god and taught his son to wrangle a stock car. Dale married at 17, and he and his first wife had a son, Kerry. By the time he began his pro racing career at age 24 in 1975, Earnhardt had a young family to support and, more than most other drivers, was all business and no fooling. When strapped for cash...
...Adam--who, tragically, is killed in 2000 at Loudon. Dale Jarrett teaching his son Dale how to drive, as Darrell Waltrip encourages his brother Michael. Bobby Allison teaching Clifford and Davey, then losing both boys, Clifford to a crash and Davey to a helicopter accident. Ralph Earnhardt teaching Dale, who teaches Junior...
...brazen place and yet, oddly, one in which it is possible to see something essentially American that one cannot see elsewhere. Here all the music and shadows of the country flow together. Here thrives the figure of the adorable con artist, like Harlem's Mr. Rinehart in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, whose "world was possibility." He was "Rine the runner and Rine the gambler and Rine the lover and Rine the Reverend." His multiple identities occupied "a world without borders...where Rine the rascal was at home...