Word: jim
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...hotshots busting to dethrone him. There wasn't always a clear-cut moment of succession, but the public knew soon enough when one had occurred, never mind the rankings. So it was that McEnroe eventually succumbed to Ivan Lendl, who made way for Stefan Edberg. Later, Boris Becker and Jim Courier shone brightest before Pete Sampras reigned through much of the '90s. And now? Well, there's ... no one, really. There's an official No. 1, of course - the American Andy Roddick - but only the tennis nuts would know that for sure. Nearly everyone else would be tossing up between...
...this: Dean and Gore are angry and hate George W. Bush. Is that a winning [presidential] campaign strategy? Highly unlikely. Hoping that things go badly in the economy and in Iraq is not a philosophy the American people will latch on to. Dean is doomed by his own anger. Jim Slemaker Los Angeles...
...instance, likes the buzz his reinvigorated campaign has been getting, but aides are trying to tamp down speculation that it might vault him past Gephardt and into second place. "A strong third here is the ticket out of Iowa," says Kerry's state director, John Norris. And when Jim Bernau, the host of a Dean house party in Altoona, predicted Dean would beat Gephardt by 12 points, Dean quickly put a stop to that talk. "My God," he told Bernau, "you're supposed to lower expectations. If we beat him by 1 1/2 points, that will be fantastic...
...George W. Bush. Personally. Is that a winning campaign strategy? Perhaps within the Democratic Party, but is it a strategy for winning the U.S. presidency? Highly unlikely. Hoping that things go badly in the economy and in Iraq is not a philosophy the American people will latch on to. JIM SLEMAKER Los Angeles...
Women who don't fit stereotypes don't fare much better, says Jim Pfaus, a psychologist at Concordia University in Montreal who studies behavioral neurobiology. "What is a woman who expresses arousal in response to blatantly visual sexual cues? I hope we've moved beyond calling her a slut while calling a man who does the same a stud." But the cultural prejudice behind those labels persists, he says...