Word: jim
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...undoing. Though Enron is bankrupt, Arthur Andersen could be liable as well, and Enron's officers and directors have deep pockets. Plaintiffs are seeking to freeze the proceeds of Enron stock sales by those insiders. "Going after directors personally is rare. But this case calls for the unusual," says Jim Newman, executive director of Securities Class Action Services, which monitors such cases...
Maybe, just maybe, Murphy is content here in Cambridge. On the flip side, maybe he has even bigger aspirations than Notre Dame. And why shouldn’t he, with all these NFL coaches dropping like flies? Just yesterday, the overly emotional Jim Mora got canned in Indianapolis. To my knowledge, Murphy has never cried at a press conference. Put him on the short list...
Turncoat, hero, ingrate, revolutionary. Folks around Capitol Hill called Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords a lot of things this year, but as of May 24 there's one thing they couldn't call him: Republican. Jeffords' sudden switch to independent--he saw the G.O.P. moving too far right of his moderate viewpoint--ended the Republican Party's control of Congress. "Democrats got to set the agenda instead of reacting to a Republican President," says a senior Senate Democratic aide. "That is a huge change...
...when the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security (the Gore Commission) said so, and advised that aviation security should be a national issue and funded accordingly, not left to the low-cost efforts of highly competitive airlines. "Everyone knew the system was broken," says Jim McKenna, former director of the Aviation Safety Alliance. "But no one or nothing could force a change. The combination of four aircraft hijacked and destroyed, with thousands killed, may be enough to force that change...
...Republican turned independent Senator Jim Jeffords was praised for a party switch that "changed the way business will be done in Washington for years to come. The shift in the balance of power has, fortunately, compelled some politicians, President Bush included, to become statesmen." And speaking of statesmen, Tony Blair had a good turnout, not only for being a good ally, but mostly "for doing a better job speaking than G.W. Bush ever could" while doing...