Word: jim
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...Most days Shanahan worries about the Latin King gang members on his block; he strains to say something useful about God to bored eighth-graders preparing for confirmation; he hustles for donations so that their school, attached to the church, won't close; he visits people like Jim Pulizzie, who is dying of cancer in his living room and looks terrified...
...finds celibacy personally valuable, he wonders if it should be optional. "There may be a time when women are priests, when priests can marry," he says. "In the meantime, we're here. No matter how many folks are furious with the church--understandably so--for me to go see Jim on perhaps his last day is a very powerful thing...
...first objective of any kiss-and-tell author is finding a target so well known that people will pay for the scandalous inside scoop. Does Jim Cramer--the money manager turned TV shouter--make that cut? Well, he does now. With a seriously flawed expose by a former employee being recalled, re-lawyered and republished--and Cramer's own memoir rushed into print to exploit the news--there's plenty of heat to sustain both books and keep Cramer where he likes to be: in the spotlight...
...party for Sarah Brady, the author, with Merrill McLoughlin, of "A Good Fight" (PublicAffairs; April 2). The scene in the Blue Smoke's Jazz Standard Club was pure Arkansas: dark and smoky, with such down-home dishes as BBQ pork and giant onion rings, beer and seemingly lax security. Jim Brady, Sarah Brady's husband, sat out in the audience in his wheelchair, eating ribs. Brady had been incapacitated in the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Following that, Sarah became a leading gun-control advocate...
...Clinton took the stage, to great applause. "I love Sarah and Jim Brady," he said. "Their story is a story of laughter, love and courage. I have extolled Jim Brady's virtues in a disgusting manner for years. These people have lived with pressure for 20 years, and they keep showing up. The least we can do is support them. Countless numbers of people are alive because of the Brady Bill. They have endured so much abuse. They fight after everything they have given to their country." Afterwards, we asked Clinton how his book is coming. "I'm having...