Word: jimming
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...from the second freshman eight boat to the championship four, competing this weekend in the 44th Head of the Charles Regatta.“[Schreck’s ascent] is definitely due and definitely a product of his attitude and hard work,” senior teammate Jim Bayley said.Growing up a two-sport athlete in baseball and basketball, Schreck had never been exposed to rowing until he transferred from his public high school to an all-boys prep school outside of Philadelphia. Adding crew to his repertoire sophomore year, Schreck quickly developed a love and talent for the sport...
...states where we never thought we had a chance that we now do--like Georgia," says Senator Charles Schumer, the New Yorker who heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Indeed, though Georgia incumbent Saxby Chambliss was sitting on an 18-point lead in September over former state representative Jim Martin, the latest polls have Martin pulling within 3 points of the incumbent. Four other GOP Senators--Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, John Sununu of New Hampshire, Gordon Smith of Oregon and Norm Coleman of Minnesota--trail their Democratic challengers in the most recent polls. Mississippi's contest between Republican incumbent...
...call attention to the impending crisis, lawmakers like Senator Christopher Dodd--the No. 1 recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie and Freddie--preached the soundness of these institutions. This is not a failure of the free-market system; it is the failure of big government and its manipulations. Jim Vance, BIRMINGHAM...
...season while poor Big Red quarterback Nathan Ford has been forced to throw the ball 116 times in just his last two games. It just barely worked against so-so Lehigh two weeks ago, but last week’s 38-17 loss to Harvard should convince Cornell coach Jim Knowles to spread the wealth...
...under 10,000 copies since it was first printed. Notable past winners of the non-fiction title include Rachel Carson, George F. Kennan, Gore Vidal, and Thomas L. Friedman. The other finalists were Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor at Rutgers and New York Law School, journalists Jane Meyer and Jim Sheeler, and Cambridge resident Joan Wickersham. Faust has said in past interviews that “This Republic of Suffering” will likely be her last book for the foreseeable future, as she does not plan to write while serving as Harvard’s president...