Word: jim
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...sure everyone’s thankful for that. On Oct. 4, Columbia student protesters rushed the stage during a speech by Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minuteman Project. The ensuing fistfight prevented Gilchrist from even starting his speech. It was an embarrassment to Columbia’s administration and the entire student body...
...while the organization—which drew nationwide coverage earlier this month when pro-immigrant students at Columbia University rushed the stage during a speech by founder Jim Gilchrist—expected to draw the ire of many, it may not have counted on the opposition of certain citizens of Massachusetts, who are vigilantly patrolling the use of the moniker “Minuteman...
...introducing comparative reading because it allows us to measure the broad reading comprehension construct in a way that parallels a common task that law students perform—comparing and contrasting texts,” Jim Vaseleck, the executive assistant to the president at LSAC, wrote in an e-mail...
...Jim Talent really wants to draw attention to the risk of breast cancer. When the U.S. Park Service told him in 2004 that he couldn't illuminate St. Louis's famous Gateway Arch with pink floodlights to highlight breast cancer awareness month because the rangers feared it would create a precedent for other national monuments, Talent passed a Senate bill authorizing him to do so. Earlier this month, Laura Bush flew in from Washington to flip the switch on the pink lights. Talent told onlookers, "Soon we will be able to find a cure to this life-threatening disease that...
...response ad (to air during Wednesday evening's Game Four of the World Series) that features current and former local pro athletes Kurt Warner, Mike Sweeney and Cardinals pitcher Jeff Suppan, along with Patricia Heaton of Everyone Loves Raymond and Passion of the Christ star Jim Caviezel. Early this year Talent abandoned his sponsorship of a tough anti-stem cell bill, but he still opposes a Missouri ballot initiative that would fund research...