Word: jim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incredible pressure to hit No. 62 quickly, so they weren't traveling with the team for the next two weeks. Partly out of humility and partly to relieve stress, McGwire doesn't talk baseball with his family and friends during the season. His good friend, business manager and accountant Jim Milner remembered talking to McGwire on the phone the night he had become the first player to hit 50 homers for three seasons--and McGwire never mentioned it. "I was watching SportsCenter, and I said, 'He didn't even tell me,'" Milner says. McGwire also coped with the stress through...
...Senate's 1987 rejection of Robert Bork for the Supreme Court. It includes the scuttling of George Bush's nomination of John Tower to become Defense Secretary amid rumors about his drinking and behavior toward women, as well as the fight over Clarence Thomas, the ouster of House Speaker Jim Wright on ethics charges and the fight that Newt Gingrich led over the misuse of the House bank. Congress is now involved in an endless cycle of payback that makes the warring House of Atreus seem like just one more placid Greek family...
...Shandling as a talk-show host, Sanders sharply satirized show business and provided a unique celebrity frisson as it toyed with the images of its famous guests. But its humor arose equally from its deeply flawed, densely realized characters. The finale was a peak and included a sequence with Jim Carrey that should become legend...
...General to appoint special prosecutors in rare instances; they have marginally less independence but have worked well in the past. Leon Jaworski was the Watergate special prosecutor after Cox. "Archibald Cox got fired, yes, but there was a hue and cry, and Leon Jaworski was appointed almost immediately," says Jim Cole of the A.B.A. task force. "He had all the power he needed and was bulletproof." Besides, few can believe that politics is absent from the process now. Seven of the 11 judges who have served on that special panel have been Republican appointees, and the vast majority of independent...
...dancing! Oh, the dancing! Such fare is rarely seen on a Harvard stage, and is almost never pulled off with this much energy and ingenuity. It's almost impossible to believe that Guys and Dolls is the first production that Jim Augustine '01 (who, incidentally, played Roy Cohn in last year's spectacular Angels in America) has ever choreographed. As mentioned earlier, the "Hot Box" numbers bring campiness to delightful new heights; in addition, "The Crapshooters' Dance" stuns and enchants with the intensity and intricacy of the moves. Choreographing a well-loved musical is tricky; one wants to create original...