Word: jimming
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Americans in the economic trough this holiday season will find fantasy solutions to their money woes in the weekend's two big new movies. Wouldn't it be nice if Jim Carrey were your local bank officer, who smilingly approved every loan, even if your need were bizarre and your collateral nonexistent? Wouldn't your soul be soothed if Will Smith were a Treasury agent who gave you a six-month extension on the pile you owe the IRS? You needn't be a financial tycoon to get a home- or pension-saving Christmas gift - not when these two stars...
Regarding Jeremy Caplan's article "De-Cluttering Your Mailbox": there are many reasons we should encourage instead of discourage direct-mail advertising [Dec. 15]. Among the most important: stop your direct mail and watch the cost of a postage stamp soar. Jim Elliott, LEMON GROVE, CALIF...
...victory in the best-of-nine contest Saturday at the Barnaby courts. But the Crimson saved its best for last, as junior Colin West clinched a Harvard comeback by winning the deciding match, a 9-0, 9-0, 9-5 blowout of Rochester’s top-seeded player Jim Bristow—a first team All-America selection last year...
...Crimson was tied with the Yellowjackets 4-4, and the No. 1 seed was set to play. For Harvard, that player was Colin West, who has been flawless so far this season, not losing a match to date. His faceoff against Rochester No. 1 seed Jim Bristow would be no different. It seemed like Bristow, who was a First Team All-American, was not going to be an easy opponent. But West swiftly defeated him 9-0, 9-0, 9-5 to secure a Crimson victory. Things were looking good for the Crimson in the first round of games...
...Brattle Street. Flores wants to rent it out every Friday and Saturday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. and Schwartz wants to rent it out two weekends every month. Both want to use the building to let student groups and others have parties or other social events. Though Jim Smith, the Center’s executive director, said that alcohol is not allowed at the center, the plan seems otherwise plausible. “It’s a reasonable thing to propose that [a candidate] would encourage renting space from us,” he said. UC President Matthew...