Word: jim
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...Jim Rogers became an investing legend in the 1970s while running a spectacularly successful hedge fund with George Soros. Since then, the Alabama native has traveled around the world more than once - on motorcycle and in a car - writing about his experiences, and his thoughts on investing, along the way. Last year, he moved to Singapore, to be close to the economic growth engine that is Asia, and also saw the launch of tradeable securities tied to a commodities index he created. TIME's Barbara Kiviat caught up with him by phone while he was on the road from Brussels...
Born in North Carolina during the Jim Crow era, Alex Rivera reported on and photographed civil rights stories about the last lynchings in South Carolina and Georgia as well as school desegregation in the South. Working for newspapers like the Washington Tribune and the Pittsburgh Courier, Rivera also photographed African Americans such as opera singer Marian Anderson and tennis legend Arthur Ashe. He later spent more than 15 years as the publicist for North Carolina Central University. Rivera...
...linchpin for Democratic statewide victories. The county voted 52% for President Bush in 2000 and 53% in 2004. But in 2005, Prince William residents helped elect Tim Kaine, a Democrat, governor with 50% of the ballots and the next year voted in nearly identical numbers to put Democrat Jim Webb in the Senate. "If Democrats split the vote in Prince William and win big in the northern counties, they win the state," says Mike May, a Republican Prince William County supervisor...
McCain adviser JIM WOOLSEY, accusing the Post of running an "inflammatory" story...
...registrations in Mississippi, many of them African Americans inspired by Barack Obama. And the collapse of the GOP brand--a party leader has said that if House Republicans were a dog food, they'd be pulled off the shelves--has gotten Childers some second looks from fed-up voters. Jim Lyons, a Republican whose trucking business is on the brink of failure, said after meeting Childers at a diner in tiny Mathiston that he's done with straight-ticket voting. "People are sick to death of all the incompetence and corruption in Washington," he said...