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Retired businessman Jim Belew, 71, of Pittsburg, Kans., made his grandson Rudy, then 13, ask twice to learn to fly, even though Belew was bursting to teach the boy. "For my sons, flying was just a way to get somewhere," Belew says. But with Rudy, a shy boy, it was different. "Flying brought him out more than anything I ever saw," Belew says. Rudy is now 18 and a licensed pilot...
...after making a specialty of playing dark characters like Jim Morrison in The Doors and drug-addicted John Holmes in Wonderland, he's starring in his first intelligent buddy comedy. The directorial debut of Shane Black--the highest-paid screenwriter of the early to mid-'90s (Lethal Weapon, Last Action Hero), who hadn't worked in six years--Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang pairs Kilmer with Robert Downey Jr. in a very meta film-noir detective story in which the narrator is constantly interrupting to apologize for various film clich�s. Kilmer plays Gay Perry, a private investigator...
...made unique contributions in their fields. “You don’t have to be a household name to be an outstanding leader,” Khazei said. Harvard’s Presley Professor of Social Medicine Paul E. Farmer and Associate Clinical Professor of Social Medicine Jim Yong Kim, the two founders of Partners in Health, made the list for their work improving health care in poor nations. Both said they were surprised to appear on the list. “I can think of other leaders in public health and medicine who are better candidates...
Whether we like it or not, the reality is that white lies are necessary. You just can’t tell people exactly how you feel all the time. I mean, look what happened to Jim Carrey in “Liar, Liar.” Sometimes, white lies are necessary simply to preserve a sense of decency and to serve as a lubricant for the hard truth...
...school’s claim that it filed its EADA report. The NCAA is aware of the errors and maintains an adjusted set of expense records. However, it does not release these adjusted records in order to protect the privacy of its members, Chief Financial Officer of the NCAA Jim Isch told USA Today. Isch also said that an NCAA committee is considering reforms that could include making data public, though he did not say when the decision would be made. Despite compliance, some NCAA schools oppose EADA requirements because preparing reports requires time and hundreds of thousands of dollars...