Robert Garrett (May 24, 1875^{[citation needed]} – April 25, 1961) was an American athlete. He was the first modern Olympic champion in discus throw and shot put.

Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, Garrett came from a wealthy family and studied in Princeton University. He excelled in track and field athletics as an undergraduate, and was captain of the Princeton track team in both his junior and senior years. Garrett was primarily a shot-putter, though he also competed in the jumping events. When he decided to compete in the first modern Olympics in 1896, Professor William Milligan Sloane suggested he should also try the discus.

They consulted classical authorities to develop a drawing and Garrett hired a blacksmith to make a discus. It weighed nearly 30 pounds (14 kg) and it was impossible to throw any distance, so he gave up on the idea. Garrett paid for his own and three classmates' (Francis Lane third in 100 m, Herbert Jamison second in 400 m, and Albert Tyler second in pole vault) way to Athens to compete in the Olympics. When he discovered that a real discus weighs less than five pounds, he decided to enter the event for fun.

Steve Adubato, Ph.D. (born October 7, 1957) is an American author, broadcaster, motivational speaker and politician. Also a university lecturer, Emmy Award-winning television news anchor, and Star-Ledger columnist, he earlier served in the New Jersey General Assembly in the mid-1980s as New Jersey's youngest state legislator at age 26.

He earned a master's degree from Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Politics, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and later a Doctor of Philosophy degree in mass communication from Rutgers. He was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly with the support of his father, Stephen Adubato Sr., a well-known and influential New Jersey Democratic politician. (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/nyregion/16adubato.html?pagewanted=all)

Adubato currently^[when?] anchors two public-affairs television programs for WNET, a PBS affiliate station:

In addition to his work on public television, Abudato regularly appears as a media and communications analyst on national television on CNBC, CNN, Fox News, NBC's Today, as well as in New York City, New York, on WNYW. He has also provided expert on-air commentary for NPR radio. Abudato currently^[when?] provides radio political commentary on WABC (AM), as well as on WOR (AM); he has also hosted on both stations. Most recently, he has regularly contributed to CBS 2 Sunday Morning on WCBS-TV and provides political commentary to Steve Adubato...on Politics on WCBS-TV's website.

Cecile Richards (born 1958) is^[update] a Democratic Party activist and has been the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America since early 2006. In 2010, Richards was elected to the Ford Foundation board of trustees.

Richards previously founded and served as president of America Votes, a coalition of national Democratic Party-affiliated organizations. Before that, she was deputy chief of staff to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives. She has also worked at the Turner Foundation.

In 1996, she founded the Texas Freedom Network, a Texas organization formed to counter the Christian Right.

Richards is the daughter of former Texas governor Ann Richards. She graduated from Brown University in 1980, is married to Kirk Adams, a labor organizer with the Service Employees International Union, and has three children. She currently^[update] lives in New York City.