Word: jim
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...They rarely take Mar. vacations 5. It's ending in June 9. When doubled, a song of Bush's alma mater 10. Boys Town is near this city 12. German firm EM.TV is buying the Jim __ Co. 13. MGM Grand has offered to buy it 15. Neurologist's tool, for short 16. One of the Coens 18. __ Perce (early Westerners) 19. Part of many Quebec place names 20. Initials of '52 and '56 21. Mary Quant design 22. Georgia was one, once 23. Richards, who called Bush "Shrub" 24. Peter Ackroyd's The __ Papers 25. Item burned in protests...
...murdering a classmate, he says, stems from an article he wrote for TIME in 1982 that later became a book, Children of War, a story of children in war zones around the world, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize. Rosenblatt, a regular essayist on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, says he was caught up in this story "not only because of the horrific situation of a child killing another child but also because the larger context of the story seems to connect to so many other problems in the country." The prolific Rosenblatt wrote this week's Essay...
...black, alone but not lonely, pursuing a treacherous trade, doing business with lethal idiots who understand his methods but not his magic. He is Ghost Dog, a philosophical black gunman who runs afoul of the mobsters who employ him in Jim Jarmusch's niftily quirky Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. And yes, he is Jarmusch as well--a filmmaker who, since his 1984 Stranger Than Paradise, has pretty much defined the spirit of the truly independent American film. Ghost Dog is talking about himself and his Mafia contact, but he might be speaking of Jarmusch when he says...
...true to your code. Show flash and substance. Find humor within wonder. That's Ghost Dog. That's Jim Jarmusch...
Three cheers to Don Barlett, Jim Steele and TIME for so graphically illustrating the insidious influence and devastating effects of campaign contributions on politics [Big Money & Politics, Feb. 7]. It is shameful that lawmakers and Administration officials are so desperate for cash that they will work tirelessly to bail out a single wealthy donor at the expense of small-business owners. What we need is genuine campaign-finance reform, so that lawmakers can no longer be encouraged to give their votes to the highest bidders. We need to ban soft money, allow for public financing of elections and provide free...