Word: jim
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...Other students appeared to agree with Wilkes. “If you want others to know you’re gay, an extra-small T-shirt from the Gap seems sufficient....a “gay homing device” might be helpful, but slightly redundant,” Jim Stilwell ‘03 wrote in an email. Will Gay Radar become the next big thing here on campus? We’ll only know when their wild beepings start interrupting Ec 10 lectures...
...meeting, Councillor Jim Braude congratulated Galluccio, who found out yesterday that he will win the JFK Library’s Fenn Award for Political Leadership...
...enter the U.S. on visas each year, and close to 3 million of them overstay their visas, just as three of the terrorists did. The Immigration and Naturalization Service, the federal agency charged with screening those who would cross our borders, "has essentially evolved into a welcoming agency," says Jim Dorcy, a 30-year INS veteran who is now a consultant with the Federation for American Immigration Reform. "We treat the people who come to our doorstep as customers and look for some way to let them in," he says...
...Woodstock's worth of musicians did their thing, including David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Billy Joel, the Who and Elton John. Short films by Woody Allen, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese and others paid homage to the city's spirit, and nonmusical performers stormed the stage in droves (Harrison Ford, Jim Carrey, Reese Witherspoon and many others). As one of them, Saturday Night Live comic and "huge Paul McCartney fan" Jimmy Fallon, said, "It's really cool when people do things for free...
...call author Jim Collins a perfectionist is to put it mildly. "Good is the enemy of great," says Collins in his comprehensive new book, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't. For five years, Collins, the best-selling author of Built to Last, and his 21 researchers obsessively studied how a good company can become a great one. The companies Collins defined as great--for example, Walgreens--generated cumulative stock returns about seven times as large as those of the S&P 500 over a 15-year period. Collins concluded that...