Word: jim
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...billion position in "currency contracts," which are derivatives that hit pay dirt when the dollar falls. Problem is, the dollar is rallying. The greenback--up 4% against the euro in the first quarter and an additional 8% since then--shows no signs of stalling, and Jim Bianco of Bianco Research estimates that Buffett's losses this year have surpassed $1 billion...
...Lincolns, Jim Sayre of Lawrenceburg, Ky., put it best: "A lot of people try to make him be what they want him to be." But the remarkable thing about Lincoln is that he is still remaking people himself. Take Jimmie Ray Rubin of Prosperity, W.Va. The 12th of 14 children, Rubin was born 73 years ago in a coal camp in nearby Lillybrook. He worked at a Laundromat and a newspaper to put himself through local colleges and eventually became a social worker. A veteran, Rubin also became commander of his American Legion post and a vets' advocate in Charleston...
...decades, African Americans had not only remembered Lincoln kindly but also invoked him as a present-day force. "The rise of Jim Crow segregation in the South," explains Allen C. Guelzo, "occurred hand in hand with the efforts of Southerners to downplay the significance of slavery both for the war and for Lincoln, and blacks battled back by keeping slavery and Lincoln's image as the Great Emancipator at the forefront of the nation's memory." A common folktale in the mid--20th century South--which Leadbelly poignantly rendered in a song he recorded in the early 1940s...
...public broadcasting," he says, "so that Republicans and conservatives would take it more seriously." His critics counter that he just wants to pressure it to lean right. Says Jeff Chester, executive director of the liberal Center for Digital Democracy: "The idea that a schedule filled with the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Antiques Roadshow, children's programming and British mystery classics is a shrill liberal bastion is absurd...
...envelope well enough to ensure postal delivery; 40% could not figure correct change from a store purchase; and more than half had at least some trouble with reading or writing. "We're talking about half the U.S. population being in a borderline or worse situation," says Texas Researcher Jim Cates, who directed the study. "There is no threat to the U.S. greater than that...