Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Staring Down Jim Crow...
...Hyde's committee, where Republicans have a 21-to-16 majority, just three defectors to the Democratic side would be enough to defeat an impeachment before it reached the full House. The chastening '98 election has created a new atmosphere on the committee. California freshman Jim Rogan saw his 15% lead in the autumn polls drop to almost nothing on Nov. 3. That brush with oblivion he blames in part on the fact that his position on the Judiciary Committee required him to second very publicly his party's pro-impeachment line. Two other G.O.P. members who could vote with...
...funny lines kept coming. Radio personality Jim Bohannon wondered how someone could date a woman as indiscreet as Linda Tripp. "You'd think if you unhooked you'd hear a dial tone." Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, the rather whiny Clinton critic from MSNBC, did something unique to the evening: she engaged in self-mockery, with a long riff on television "pundettes"--"someone who says the same thing over and over and over, but never wears the same dress twice"--and then, even more bravely, actually sang a smoky number called The Pundette Blues...
Corporate welfare's burden on the American taxpayer is a widespread yet underinvestigated problem, as Don Barlett and Jim Steele learned during their 18-month investigation of the subject. Just how that burden chafes became even more evident to the prize winning journalists soon after their four-part series on the topic debuted two weeks ago. "We've received at least a dozen very substantial tips and examples from people around the country who are very passionate about this dilemma and felt no one else was listening," says Barlett. "It's a measure of how strongly people feel about this...
Homosexuality gives gay men license to see or do just about anything when it comes to their straight female friends. Schrefer says girls will walk around him in bras without a second thought. Jim C. Augustine '01 has discovered there is practically nothing he can say that would be offensive. "Just last night I was dancing around the street and making fun of this guy and saying, 'I'm a heterosexual man. Who likes breasts. Breasts are good. Yeah,'" he says. "No straight guy could get away with that...