Word: jim
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...made a "minimal" investment in reaching the French and Italian markets, says Taylor. Berlitz, for its part, earned a boost to its reputation. The Sharper Image pays the firm to localize content for its German and British sites, which it launched this year. "Global branding," says Berlitz GlobalNET CEO Jim Lewis, "is the fastest-growing part of our business...
...their service contracts to competitive bidding--as many now do with commuter service--from a scaled-down Amtrak or private companies that operate commuter and passenger-rail services around the world, such as Connex and Herzog. "We see potential there, and we'd like to see opportunity," says Jim Stoetzel, a vice president at Connex North America, a division of France's Vivendi, which runs passenger trains in Europe...
...Minister Tony Blair, has opened a public relations assault to point up the oppression of women under Taliban rule. Two weeks ago, Laura Bush delivered what is ordinarily the President's Saturday radio address to speak about the problem. "What this initiative has done is send a signal," says Jim Wilkinson, director of the Coalition Information Center, the White House office that coordinates the Administration's worldwide anti-Taliban message. "By talking about the problem, we're hopefully able to affect the solution as they set up the new Afghan government," he notes...
Susan Harlow, 45, who has a 25-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, tried to conceive a second child through fertility drugs and inseminations for the first eight years of her 13-year marriage to Jim. A diagnosis was made of pelvic adhesions and blocked Fallopian tubes. The high cost and low predicted-success rate dissuaded the Harlows from trying ivf. Although this was a struggle for both, it was a lot harder for Jim. "My wife always had her daughter Melissa to fall back on, and I just felt like I had to go at this alone," says...
...Ming hopes to build a Shaolin temple in rural upstate New York, where the mountains remind him of his old home. But the project needs cash and right now he's too short on "green qi." So, predictably perhaps, he's turning his attention to a movie career. Director Jim Jarmusch, who gave him a small role in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, believes the qualities that make Yan Ming such a funky monk will also serve him well as an actor. "I love his contradictions," says Jarmusch, "he's so playful and yet he has the potential...