Word: jims
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Rollins and his staff have been studiously denying all of his initial comments. Denial presents a daunting task, when three top campaign people make the same "mistake." Rollins has explained his comments as lies intended to rile James Carville, the campaign manager of former governor and Whitman opponent Jim Florio. (You might recall Carville as the guy who engineered the defeat of Perot and one notable Republican a year ago.) Is Ed Rollins, pundit par excellence, really stupid and immature enough to say things that could get him arrested just to dig at Jim Carville? Luckily, the Democratic State Committee...
...investigated a key meeting in December 1989, when CIA officer Mark McFarlin and his boss Jim Campbell, the CIA station chief in Venezuela, met with Annabelle Grimm, attache of the DEA in Caracas. McFarlin, who was assigned to coordinate counternarcotics operations with Guillen's National Guard antidrug unit, wanted Grimm's assistance. He asked her to allow hundreds of pounds of cocaine to be shipped to the U.S. through Venezuela. And he asked that the DEA make sure the contraband would not be interdicted -- in other words, "let the dope walk...
...elocution suggesting a glee-club star who's just been kneed by the school football coach -- could belong only to Marvin Lee Aday, known to the world as Meat Loaf. First as Eddie the zombie biker in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), then as star of writer-arranger Jim Steinman's ambitious album Bat Out of Hell (1977), Meat Loaf gave clarion clout to rock's first decadent period. The Bat LP sold oodles; one cut (Two Out of Three Ain't Bad) was a hit single; another (Paradise by the Dashboard Light) became an influential proto-video...
...Jority Jim...
When George Bush was President and Jim Baker was his foreign policy czar, nobody logged more frequent-flyer miles for TIME than J.F.O. ("Jef") McAllister, our State Department correspondent. Accompanying the peripatetic Secretary of State on his shuttle-diplomacy marathons, McAllister quickly mastered the technological rigors of modern journalism -- banging out dispatches on his Toshiba laptop in airplanes, airports, briefing rooms and run-down hotels. He once typed a file while stuck in a broken elevator in Kislovodsk, a spa town in the heartland of Russia...