Word: jim
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...only Edgar Bronfman Jr. could borrow the powers of God, like Jim Carrey in Universal Pictures' Bruce Almighty. Then the former CEO of Seagram, the distiller that once owned Universal, could turn back time and erase the disastrous sale of the firm his family founded to France's Vivendi. Since that deal in December 2000, Vivendi Universal's stock has dropped 71%, devastating the Bronfman family fortune. And Edgar Jr., despite some successes at Seagram, has reinforced his image as dilettante and wannabe mogul. Business Week crowned him one of the worst managers of 2002, and New York magazine called...
...interview with The Crimson in November 1952, Maryland football coach Jim Tatum accused the “Big Three”—as the universities that had signed the 1951 scholarship policy came to be called—of concealing scholarships they gave to athletes and speciously maintaining their athletes’ amateur status...
...sent red bandannas, T shirts and--sources tell TIME--Willie Nelson whiskey. The Dems then broke into a campfire-style sing-along of Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee from a second-floor balcony. A good time was had by all. At a press briefing that evening, legislator Jim McReynolds said, "We have not heard from Governor [Rick] Perry or Speaker [Tom] Craddick, but we have heard from the most powerful Texan of all, Willie Nelson...
Lately, other coaches have forgotten other rules. There's ex-basketball coach Larry Eustachy of Iowa State, who forgot the one about not getting drunk and canoodling with coeds. There's Jim Harrick, ex-basketball coach of the University of Georgia, who forgot the one about not permitting athletes to receive bogus class credits. There's Jan van Breda Kolff, ex-basketball coach of St. Bonaventure University, who forgot to require a transfer student to have a two-year degree, not a certificate in welding...
Harvard water polo coach Jim Floerchinger resigned earlier this month, ending his five-year tenure as the team’s first full-time head coach...