Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Michael K. Mayo '94 was associate chair of The Crimson. JP is Jamaica Plain. EB is East Boston. And "Townies" and "Parkies" come from Charlestown and Hyde Park, respectively...
...million at the North American wickets. Since then, White Men Can't Jump has grossed $72 million, and lower- budget Disney films also broke through -- the first Mighty Ducks made $51 million, and last year's Cool Runnings, an inspirational comedy about the 1988 Olympic bobsled team from Jamaica, earned $69 million...
Libby is not indepedently wealthy, and shelives in a modest home in Jamaica Plain. But shehas at least one friend who might have been ableto help back the new company...
...movie. I hate hearing people sing the plot to me. "In the name of the father and his wife the spirit/You said you did not they said you did it." Come on! Reminds me of that stupid Robin Williams movie where he plays a fireman who moves to Jamaica, and the theme song, a reggae cop, went "There a fireman, jah and he didn't like his job, jah, so he went to Jamaica, jah." Sinead O'Connor sings the last one, which reminds me of a Peter Gabriel song. You know how Peter Gabriel songs were always used...
...born with many advantages. In his native Jamaica, Ferguson attended the exclusive Calabar boys' high school, an academy that numbers among its alumni Percival Patterson, the island's Prime Minister. The Fergusons lived in a two-story home protected by walls and wrought-iron gates in Kingston's elite suburb of Havendale. His father Von Herman Ferguson was one of the most prominent businessmen in Jamaica. When the elder Ferguson died in a car accident in 1978, his funeral was attended by government and military luminaries. However, that passage -- and the subsequent death of Ferguson's mother from cancer -- shattered...