Word: jim
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...conversation in Modesto has thus far been much less conciliatory. Despite repeated calls for reform from a small but vocal black parents' group, the district is not weighing any changes to its discipline code. Administrators will not comment on particular cases, but Jim Pfaff, Modesto's associate superintendent, points out that district policy stipulates a stiffer penalty for a student, like Russell, who inflicts injuries causing "stitches, loss of consciousness or a fracture." Pfaff attributes the high rate of black expulsions to an influx of black families from San Francisco "who do not understand" Modesto's discipline code, which provides...
...part of an exhibition for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), she and Jim Cottington of MoMA, tried to recreate the drip-and-splatter technique that Pollock invented...
...Benjamin, head of the accounting department at Texas A&M University, told TIME that Duncan, his former student, confided in the summer of 2000 that "he was feeling frustrated with the complexity of the situation and concerned about what Andersen was doing and what was right." Duncan's pastor, Jim Jackson, says the accountant told him he had suggested to colleagues that Andersen should consider dropping Enron as a client...
...greater challenge--for gay and straight priests--comes in life after seminary. Living in a rectory, says the Rev. Jim Morris, can be a desperately lonely experience. "You share some of your parishioners' most important moments--birth, marriage, death--and at the end of the day, you lock the door, and you are by yourself." Morris, 51, spent six years as the associate pastor at Our Lady of Lourdes in Queens Village, N.Y. In 1995 he found himself in love and took a leave of absence to live with his partner. He continues to act sacramentally, though, celebrating Mass...
...will be stored for possible use in the future. U.S. insistence on this point was particularly troubling to the Russians, but Putin, who can't afford to maintain a large strategic arsenal in any case, acceded to it in the end. "There's no actual reduction," complains Jim Steinberg, a top foreign- policy adviser to Clinton. "It's just an agreement on the deployment of forces. You can't even call it an arms-control treaty...