Word: jim
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What best symbolizes black progress--and white resistance--in America is the march. Haggard slaves marched north, using moonlight and north-facing moss to get to freedom. Years later, regiments of blacks again marched north, this time in the great migration, drawn by jobs and away from Jim Crow. In the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the most poignant images were of the march: from Selma to Montgomery, then to Washington and the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr. tell of a dream. New laws signaled the next campaign: blacks and whites heading toward an integrated, egalitarian...
...film does have moments when it reminds you that it is, after all, a made-for-TV movie. The dialogue can get cheesy. In an early scene, Wallace's mentor, Governor "Big Jim" Folsom (Joe Don Baker) warns him: "It's almost like your connection to the folk is all you feel gives you any personal meaning. Like it's all you really feel you are yourself." And, unfortunately, those are just the moments when the background music swells. But Sinise manages to keep the story on track...
...next threesome up on the tee remains to be seen, but clearly Woods will be one of them. In a way, he is responsible for the esprit de kiddie corps. "There's definitely a Tiger effect," says CBS golf announcer Jim Nantz. "Once the other young golfers saw Tiger bypass the customary apprenticeship, they thought, 'Hey, I can do that too.'" Leonard said as much after his British Open victory: "Having seen Tiger do so well, having seen Ernie do so well, maybe I thought it was O.K. to go out and win a tournament like this being...
...joint space effort. There is no need for a space race among nations, but there is a need for an international effort to build a path into space that is safe and cost-effective and returns a broad benefit to mankind. Let us not belittle that with superficial phrases. JIM MATHERLY Bay City, Mich...
...JIM BARKSDALE With Microsoft's browser destined for every Mac and Windows PC, is Netscape's the new Betamax...