Word: jim
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...There’s a chance that the reparations movement will do more harm than good, because the central change is educating the public about the here-and-now effects of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Edley, who advised former President Bill Clinton on race matters. “We must correct the widespread view that, because landmark court decisions and legislation occurred 40 to 50 years ago, the legacy of color caste is only about history...
Today, of course, you can't pick up a fashion magazine without seeing splashy liquor ads picturing women sipping themselves into various states of rapture. "Get in touch with your masculine side," instructs a recent Jim Beam ad, which depicts a woman puffing on a cigar. Flip on an episode of Sex and the City, and you are likely to catch Carrie Bradshaw and her friends blithely tossing back candy-colored cocktails at a downtown bar. But it's not only thirtysomethings on TV who persistently overindulge. On a recent episode of the Fox sitcom Undeclared, several college coeds...
...church is to be protected." And it comes from sex-abuse experts like Richard Sipe, who says, "The church is not going to get out of this without opening fully a dialogue and going beneath the secret system of handling things." Even victims say it, over and over. Jim Griley, 39, who says he was abused by California priest Michael Pecharich 30 years ago, is on a mission to break the church of its secrecy. "This is going to bring a cleansing to the church," he says. "They need to turn these stones over. They need to get this...
...Jim Patton continued the Harvard tradition of strong performances in the javelin. As a freshman, he can’t be expected to put up Clever-like numbers, which would be in the 70-meter range, but he still placed highly—second at both TSU and Rice with 54-meter throws...
Harvard refused to be buried, though, stringing together a three-goal spurt in the fourth quarter. Co-captain Jim Christian, sophomore Jeff Gottschall and junior Jay Wich all scored in rapid-fire succession—Wich’s strike came just eight seconds after Gottschall’s—to bring Harvard back within two goals...