Word: jim
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...this image of English people as evil anyway," he says. But Mr. Nasty can be nice. When someone wows Cowell, he'll gush, "You are talent. You are a star." (His praise, like many critics', isn't half as inspired as his insults.) And his put-downs can backfire. Jim Verraros, a likable young man who has two deaf parents and who accompanied his first audition by signing, was voted into the finals last week despite a subpar performance. It probably helped that Cowell had savaged his vocals: "If you win this competition, we will have failed...
Much of cable's woe stems from the high cost of programming in Europe, driven up a decade ago by newcomers KirchPayTV and BSkyB, which wanted to kick start their fledgling services. Soccer--which is quite literally "the only game in town," as Carmel Group analyst Jim Stroud puts it--has seen the cost of its coveted broadcast rights soar in recent years. Kirch alone paid $350 million a year to distribute the German national championship league, a cost that contributed to the German company's eventual downfall. Even BSkyB hasn't turned a profit on its most recent investment...
...have promised Congress they will send the new department their "finished" intelligence reports, but they resist divulging raw data and sensitive sources and methods. The two organizations also insist the bureaucratic war between them is over. "The FBI and CIA are working together," says Jim Bernazzani, an FBI agent detailed to the CTC and one of its deputy directors. "Anybody who promotes the notion that we are not is wrong...
...mass media helped transform certain groups of brutal outlaws—namely, ethnic Irish and Italian hoods that operated within highly structured criminal syndicates—into pop culture icons. For many impoverished European immigrants, the rags-to-riches, Horatio Alger-like tales of powerful mobsters such as Big Jim Colosimo and the infamous Al Capone seemed to epitomize the American Dream. As historian David Ruth has written: “The central theme of the Capone narrative was an individual’s escape from obscurity to wealth, power, and fame...
CAPTAINS Michael Baly, Jim Christian