Word: jimming
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...might guess, things that come between a Nevadan and his land don't sit well, and over the past decade, there's been nothing more disruptive than the environmental movement's good intentions. Nye County rancher Jim Berg, 68, doesn't call himself a Libertarian, but he thinks the GOP has lost its will to keep the government from affecting his livelihood. He has plenty of war stories about his county's showdowns with the Federal Government, including a 1991 standoff when armed federales came to confiscate cattle belonging to a neighboring rancher who had let his herd graze...
...first half of Pineda's story isn't unique. Filipino cover bands are common in the hotels, lounges and bars of many Asian cities - a phenomenon Manila-based PhilMusic.com founder Jim Ayson attributes to simple oversupply. "There are more musicians in the Philippines than there are opportunities," says Ayson, himself a drummer and an acquaintance of Pineda in the 1980s. But Pineda's rags-to-riches story is giving new and singular hope to Filipino singers. "A lot of singers here tried to make it in the States and they couldn't," he says. "[Pineda] made...
...tactical brilliance, remaking modern political campaigning in the process. For his first reelection campaign in 1978 he broke the fundraising record, pulling in $7.5 million. In 1984, he broke the spending record for a campaign with an outpouring of $18 million to eke out a 3% win over Governor Jim Hunt. He raised that money both through his national exposure and by becoming one of the first and certainly the most effective user of direct-mail solicitation and campaigning. At various points he hired and advanced the careers of such well-known conservative operatives as Lee Atwater, Charlie Black...
...considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, prosecuted and won a war to free him nevertheless. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a member of a Confederate militia, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to rile the nation over racial injustice and rouse its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century who has lifted...
...pivotal moment in Huckleberry Finn is when Huck decides not to do what his conscience tells him is right, to turn in "Miss Watson's Jim" as a runaway slave. Instead, he decides to abide by his personal affection for Jim, although the upshot will be, according to all he has been taught, eternal damnation for violating the norms of society and its view that a slave is the rightful property of its owner...