Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jim Ball, an MBTA spokesperson, said McGurn had been suspended without pay. He said a disciplinary hearing had been scheduled for today...
...Justice Department announced an independent review of check-kiting practices on the Hill. Adding to the embarrassment, at least three Democrats -- Charles Wilson of Texas, former Congressmen Jim Bates of California and Doug Walgren of Pennsylvania -- used House bank checks to lend money to their election campaigns...
Most journalists discover their calling in fairly direct ways: a pep talk from an English teacher, perhaps, or a stint on the high school newspaper. Jim Kelly got the news bug when he was negotiating a treaty on long-range nuclear missiles. It happened when he was an undergraduate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, preparing to take part in a mock U.S.-Soviet negotiating session on SALT II. "I thought the exercise was pretty silly," says Jim. "Besides, doing the reporting on both sides' positions was more intriguing to me than being part...
After graduating from Princeton in 1977 (and getting his own pep talk from author and former TIME writer John McPhee, with whom he took a journalism class), Jim came to TIME. He started out writing Milestones, where he learned that a life story could be told in a paragraph if necessary. He went on to handle slightly longer pieces in the Nation, World and Press sections, and became World editor in 1988. Last fall Jim was named assistant managing editor, overseeing a variety of sections, including Nation, Law, Education, Books and Interview...
Then introduce him to Harvard Co-Captain, Jim Mrowka, and watch his mouth drop open...