Word: jim
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...those rare mental conditions--like narcissism--that it's O.K. to make fun of. Maybe that's why it's such a favorite among screenwriters: since Christmas, we have had no fewer than three movies that revolve around people misplacing their memories. In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet pay to have the memory of their lousy relationship erased. Paycheck was a sci-fi thriller about a man (Ben Affleck) whose employers wipe his memory for security purposes. (As an extra precaution, they then erased Paycheck from the memory of the entire moviegoing public...
Mindful of the checkered history of high-profile evangelists, Warren and his wife seem determined to be the anti--Jim and Tammy Faye. "I want to live above reproach," says the man whose role model is Billy Graham, explaining why he avoids being alone with women other than his wife. The Warrens, who have three grown children, live comfortably but relatively modestly in a $360,000 tract home they bought two years ago, and the reverend drives a Ford SUV. In 2003, with royalties from the Purpose-Driven product line pouring in, Warren stopped taking his $110,000 annual salary...
...registration fee plus $3-per-month charge. Networking sites are still primarily a U.S. phenomenon, but Monster.com has 3 million registered users in 15 European countries. Will they pay up? CEO Jeffrey Taylor thinks so: ?Unlike Friendster, we're providing a network with a purpose.? - By Jim Ledbetter All Bets Are Offshore The tiny state of Antigua and Barbuda scored a victory at the World Trade Organization when the WTO outlawed a U.S. ban on online gambling. The Caribbean islands have claimed a significant chunk of the $6 billion global Internet gambling market; the U.S. will appeal...
After the end of the Jim Crow era, “the courts were effectively open to black people in general, but they were not open to these riot victims,” Brophy said. “Those folks had no shot at justice...
...unfinished process of implementing Brown has turned out to be nearly as slow as the process of tearing down the Jim Crow system,” Ogletree wrote...