Word: jims
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...greatest champion in Olympic history won no medals. Baron Pierre de Coubertin wasn't even much of an athlete. But were it not for the diminutive French nobleman, we might not know the names of Jim Thorpe, Babe Didrikson, Jesse Owens, Wilma Rudolph, Mark Spitz, Nadia Comaneci, Jackie Joyner-Kersee...
...Much of the success will depend on how well we can make a case for the funds for the center," Feagin said. "Jim is very talented. He is a terrific strategist and a wonderful fundraiser...
...babysitting for two kids this summer, one of whom, Alex, an eight-year-old, is obsessed with Jim Carey. His mother, figuring it would be a good time for us, suggested we go to the opening day of "The Cable Guy," which stars Carey and Matthew Broderick...
Except of course that Jim Carey is a big psycho, a role in which he is all too convincing. Matthew Broderick does a fine if not spectacular job as the lone island of sanity in Carey's ocean of dementia, but Carey's seduction to the dark side of the force does not prove terribly moving. His portrayal of a character split between "Fatal Attraction" and "The Three Stooges" does not pull convincingly one way or another. Jim Carey does not, nor will he likely ever, move us to tears, and unfortunately as the Cable Guy he barely moves...
...Lott won the majority leader's post with the support of some G.O.P. moderates like Jim Jeffords of Vermont and Olympia Snowe of Maine, who believe he is a closet dealmaker. For instance, he pushed a compromise on the telecommunications bill earlier this year that, perhaps not incidentally, benefited a Mississippi company. Lott is a longtime friend of Bill Clinton's ambidextrous political consultant Dick Morris, who advised Lott in both his Senate races and frequently conferred with the Senator during last year's budget fireworks...