Word: jimming
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Bush’s faith-based initiative program is also troubling because there is evidence to suggest that it is prejudiced against minority religions. Jim Towey, Bush’s director of faith-based initiatives was asked during an online “Ask the President” session whether the faith-based initiative program would also support charitable religious programs affiliated with minority religions, such as paganism. Towey responded that “Once you make it clear to any applicant that public money must go to public purposes and can’t be used to promote ideology...
...Jim Calhoun, head men's basketball coach at the University of Connecticut, had just won his 700th career game as a college coach last Wednesday, and the 10,000 fans at the sold-out Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Conn., were going wild, waving placards that read "700." Boosted by Calhoun and his two national titles, including last year's championship, UConn is no longer a "cow college" between Hartford and nowhere. It's a high-powered name, on TV every week during the season, with applications and donations booming. But of all the young men who have helped bring Calhoun...
...Collection line is the top eveningwear seller at Neiman Marcus, for instance, while his higher-end shutter-pleat dress has pulled in more than $4 million in sales. Making time for his runway show: Neiman Marcus Group CEO Burt Tansky, Saks vice chairman Ron Frasch and Bergdorf Goodman CEO Jim Gold...
This week's cover package is illustrated with photographs by James Nachtwey, who has spent his career covering the myriad ways in which war and disaster destroy human lives. Jim, who has worked for TIME since 1983, has won dozens of accolades, including the World Press Photo prize last month for best single photo of a contemporary issue in 2004. The World Press Photo awards, overseen by an international panel of 13 judges who meet every February in Amsterdam, are the world's most prestigious photojournalism competition. Jim received his first-place award for an image that appeared on TIME...
TIME won another first-place World Press Photo award last month, this one for Christopher Morris and a portfolio of photographs he took while covering George W. Bush's re-election campaign last year. We're proud of Jim and Chris, but the awards are not so much about TIME as about the power of a photograph, simple and unadorned, to tell a story in ways that words cannot...