Word: jim
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...trader, Jim Schwieger, challenged Lay. Why, he asked, was chief financial officer Andrew Fastow sharing the stage--and gainfully employed--considering that he had just blown half a billion dollars mismanaging several Enron partnerships and earned $30 million doing it? Lay put his arm around Fastow and proclaimed his "unequivocal trust" in the CFO. The partnership accounting was complex stuff, Lay explained, but Fastow was on top of it--or he'd be in big trouble. A day after that buddy-buddy display, Fastow was history...
...Jim D. Chinitz ’04 has been boasting about the awesome gift he got for his “girlfriend” for Valentine’s Day. His roommates note that he neither has a girlfriend nor has talked to a female since sections stopped in December. Closer analysis reveals that the gift was an issue of Maxim—and that it was a gift for Jim...
...most part none of the articles require prior knowledge of comix past or present, though they may require some patience. Jim Woodring, author of the comicbook "Frank," writes a personal appreciation of the early gag cartoonist T. S. Sullivant who, "posed his characters in ways never seen before or since." Other historical essays include one about Bill Holman's "Smokey Stover" strip from the 1930s. Noticeably the generous examples of Holman's screwball "YOWSA!" of a strip tell you nearly as much as the essay's academic run-on. (Sample: "Holman's desultory recklessness as he periodically disassembled his characters...
Then, Northeastern’s captain and front-running Hobey Baker candidate Jim Fahey whistled a slapshot by BU goaltender Sean Fields to give his team its first lead of the game with just 10 seconds to go in the second...
...phrase WORDS OF WAR flashes across the screen, then zooms at you with the swoosh! of an attack jet. This is not news packaged to impress blue-America TV critics; it's NASCAR with Pentagon briefings. Call it crass or pandering--if you get your news from Jim Lehrer, you probably call it both--but it says, viscerally, that the news is worth getting passionate about. And perhaps because of its love of a good fight, Fox seems to book further-left debate foils--for instance, Larry Holmes of Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, one of several...