Word: jims
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...expiration date: in a year PBS's influential, much honored MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour will no longer be the same. Robert MacNeil, who co-anchors the show from New York City, announced last week that he will retire in October 1995, the show's 20th anniversary, leaving Washington-based Jim Lehrer as the sole anchor. MacNeil characterized his decision as "convenient," which was typical of his cool honesty, unhurried by controversy, unharried by the press of events...
...Veruca Salt isn't one of them. On the group's debut CD, American Thighs, singer-guitarist Nina Gordon, singer-guitarist Louise Post, bassist Steve Lack and drummer Jim Shapiro make music that is both disturbingly dysfunctional and thoroughly enjoyable. The band's lyrics are downbeat, fuzzy and weird while the tunes are upbeat and full of melodic guitar bravado. On the energetic Celebrate You, Post sings, "And in the dream/ You held a gun/ You killed off all who hurt you," accompanied by bright, jangling guitars. On All Hail Me, when Post cries, "I killed your baby...
Come next October, PBS's venerable MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour will become, simply, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Co-anchor Robert MacNeil announced he would retire next year after 20 years for budgetary as well as personal reasons...
Difficult as taking the high road may be, however candidates would do well to watch what they say today, because tomorrow their words could come back to haunt them. For example, Bill Frist, a physician who is seeking to displace Sen. Jim Sasser (D-Tenn.), may not be using this slogan in a few years, if he wins his seat: "Bill Frist supports term limits to stop career politicians, and the death penalty to stop career criminals...
...Chemistry concentrators are up to 140 from 100 a couple years ago," said Jim E. Davis, head tutor in the chemistry department...