Word: jimming
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...impressive variety of faculty members on its degree-granting committee, the department’s inconvenient truth is that advising is negligible at best and that a significant effort has to be made to get attention from anyone in the department. The head of ESPP is Pfoho Housmaster Jim McCarthy, study break enforcer and science advisor to Al Gore’s own Inconvenient Truth. Other professors include Paul Hoffman and Daniel Schrag, the two leading proponents of the “Snowball Earth” hypothesis, which proposes that an ice age that took place in the Neoproterozoic...
...That's thanks to Ferrell, who seems to be stretching his comedic skills but is in fact contracting them. No actual acting required here (unlike, say, Jim Carrey's turn in the Kaufman film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), just the occasional slim smile under existential pressure and the radiating of a dim niceness. Ferrell also intermittently channels the numerological obsessions of Hoffman's character from Rain Man. Remind me: did that film win the big... Oscar? The Academy campaign starts Nov. 10, at a theater near...
...respectful dialogue with the states of the Middle East; if we stopped supporting corrupt Arab regimes; if Britain and America stopped their gun-running activities; and if Muslim leaders in Britain were making it sufficiently clear in the public forum that the taking of any human life is evil. Jim McCluskey Twickenham, England...
...Jim Vowler, the president and CEO of the publicly traded Unique Pizza and Subs, said that he plans to have 200 locations open nationwide within the next 18 months. He currently has franchises in Pennsylvania and Virginia...
...selling far more copies now, and some young people are even acting on its rather radical prescriptions: a sprinkling of Protestant groups known loosely as the New Monastics is experimenting with the kind of communal living among the poor that had previously been the province of Catholic orders. Jim Wallis, longtime leader of one such community in Washington and the editor of Sojourners magazine, has achieved immense exposure lately with his pleas that Evangelicals engage in more political activism on behalf of the poor...