Word: jim
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Also when you're really great, everyone around you says you can do anything. Few people are going to tell His Airness that he's lost a step, that he's about to pull a Willie Mays, that athletes do this all the time, joust against age and lose--Jim Palmer, Joe Louis, Johnny Unitas. That even if there's something poetic about competing against your mortality, no one ever wrote a poem called "To an Athlete Going Gray." Even worse than the bray of the acolytes is the example of his golf buddy Mario Lemieux, 36, who also owns...
...when most directors are far past their prime. His influence can be felt in the most exciting films of recent years, and he has worked in just about every film genre known to man. In a field of imitators, Altman is an innovator--one of the best America has. JIM HEMPHILL Los Angeles...
...programs. Otherwise, there might not be enough money for the baby boomers' looming retirement. But the White House has signaled that extra funds built up in Medicare are fair game for bolstering the budget. Democrats are fuming; most G.O.P. lawmakers back Bush, but some, like House Budget Committee chairman Jim Nussle, seemed to box in their President by promising that Congress will "protect 100% of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. Period...
Prosecutor Jim FitzGerald finds such speculation "inflammatory" and not relevant to the court's goals regarding Oakley. He says the order by Banales is too narrowly drafted to be of much use to other prosecutors and is, in any case, a weapon against intentional dereliction, not a "financial litmus test" for parenthood. "What it really means," he says, is "if you have a kid, you have to pay support to your best ability and not just blow...
...them does. Last May, Nevada's Democratic Senator Harry Reid succeeded in persuading Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords to bolt the Republican Party. Jeffords' switch gave Democrats control of the Senate--and promoted Reid from minority to majority whip, a perch he is currently trying to use to block the Bush Administration from putting the nuclear dump in his state. "This is wrong what they're trying to do," insists Reid. Last May, majority leader Tom Daschle flew to Las Vegas to speak at a fund raiser for Reid. "As long as we're in the majority," Daschle vowed, "[the Yucca...