Word: jim
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...reporting on the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Many of Kristof’s columns on the crisis, which began appearing in the fall of 2004, exposed the crimes committed in Darfur through personal accounts from Sudanese refugees who had been forced to flee their homes. Jim Lehrer, the host of The News Hour on Public Broadcasting Service and ten-time presidential debate moderator, was also honored yesterday with a career award for excellence in journalism. In his acceptance speech last night, Lehrer said that traditional journalism is in “a moment that in many ways...
...absence of any apparent racial motive for the crimes is a small comfort in Birmingham. But the demise of the churches, some more than 100 years old, is still painful. "I began to sense loss for our older people," says Jim Parker, pastor at Ashby Baptist in Bibb County. "They were baptized and married here, and their people are buried here," he says. "But when the children started really crying, I realized it was all they had ever known too." Some things have changed in Alabama, but grief remains the same...
...Allen to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., but Democrats objected and there was never a confirmation hearing. Allen was Secretary of Health and Human Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1998 to 2001, appointed by former Gov. Jim Gilmore, and came to Washington as the deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for Bush. In that job, Bush introduced him at events in the White House and on the road in Tampa, Fla., and Bethesda, Md. As domestic policy adviser, Allen occasionally briefed the reporters...
...actions. Harris, though confined by his character’s extreme introversion, conveys the pathetic anguish of an author who’s lost the ability to communicate with the outside world. Perhaps the most surprising turn, however, is Ferrell. Though not quite as successful as Jim Carrey in “The Truman Show,” Ferrell restrains (mostly) his trademark goofy slapstick to play a sweet Christian rocker with a penchant for eyeliner...
...Tramp’ after she spends the night in the park with a random mongrel and gets arrested. 11. When you notice that Peg, the saucy, lounge-singing pound ruffian, looks like Goldie Hawn…only better. 12. If you notice the Yale reference in Jim Dear and Darling’s baby preparation. Honestly, the snobbery of this aristocratic family has “Yale Legacy” written all over it. —Mollie K. Wright