Word: jim
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...Harvard men’s basketball team had two sure things, a couple of uncertainties, and one huge void.While the Crimson boasted the strongest returning frontcourt in the league, the guard spots were left cloudy with the graduation of shooting guard Kevin Rogus and point guard Dave Giovacchini. Junior Jim Goffredo was set to fill in for Rogus at the two. The one, however, was a different matter. Versatile senior Mike Beal, originally recruited to play small forward, was expected to handle much of the duty of bringing the ball up the court as the two freshman point guards, Drew...
...Jerusha and Mike White, had never worked with a celebrity before, and when it came time to shoot, "I kind of beat around the bush if I wanted to change something. But Jack was just like, 'Hess, dude, tell me what you want.'" Says White: "He's not a Jim Carrey. He's not looking to improvise, and he finds it annoying when people say, 'Then you'll come in and do your Jack Black thing!' He wants real direction, he just wants to be able to contribute...
...Jim Webb is standing at parade rest, feet apart at shoulder width, chin out, quiet blue eyes scanning his target of opportunity-the assembled Democrats of Montgomery County, Virginia-and waiting for local party chieftain Steve Cochran to ask him something. "Well, looking through this," Cochran says, riffling through a series of questions written on three-by-five cards, "there's one dominant theme. People want to know why you became a Democrat after all those years as a Republican, and why you endorsed George Allen for the U.S. Senate over Chuck Robb in 2000, and why you want...
...years, the tide of political conversions has been running in the opposite direction, from Democrat to Republican, and most of the converts were people like Webb: white, Southern, middle class or poorer, patriotic and, often, with a strong family tradition of military service-in fact, Webb's son Jim Jr. is a Marine lance corporal headed to Ramadi. Webb's conversion may be a sign that those sorts of people may now be willing to give the Democrats a second look. A standard-issue Democrat like Miller would probably be cannon fodder for a Republican incumbent like Allen, a party...
Crane's currency challengers have found a champion in Arizona Republican Representative Jim Kolbe. A free trader who calls the Crane monopoly "un-American," Kolbe has introduced legislation every year for a decade to overturn the laws that he says favor Crane. "First, there's the provision that only companies that are [at least] 90% American-owned can bid," he says. "We don't allow that for anything else, not even defense." The Secret Service insists that money must be produced and printed within the U.S. to maintain security, but the GAO found no reason to bar foreign companies from...