Word: john
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There in grainy black and white is the young John McCain, lieutenant commander, U.S.N., shot down in October 1967. In pain, he mutters to the camera that he loves his wife. McCain--now, of course, Republican Senator from Arizona and running for President--refused the early release that the North Vietnamese offered him (his father was commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific), an act of solidarity that earned him additional torture...
...have a new deity--the next Cisco. This once quiet company has become the very visible backbone to every communications network in the world. Cisco, led by John Chambers, dominates all the tough science behind the movement of information. When you think of voice, data, bandwidth, telephony and the Internet--all the buzz words behind today's hottest stocks--you invariably come back to Cisco, which is the go-to guy behind the equipment that makes this stuff work. Dot.com companies are loaded with Cisco's products. The company is held in awe by Silicon Valley and Wall Street...
...Christopher John Farley...
...third inning, I'd made lots of friends. I did color in the radio booth with John Rodgers, who explained how Cedar Rapids was a city of five seasons: winter, spring, summer, fall and "time," which they always make sure to enjoy. I think of Cedar Rapids as the city with a poor grasp of the word season...
...similar Friday evening jaunt. Bailey saw the haze and the fast-approaching dark and decided to stay on the ground. Kennedy was a green pilot, his license a year old, and was rated to fly visually, but not by instruments, which would be required in poor visibility. Perhaps John Jr. was thinking of his waiting family, of his cousin?s wedding, or the ride to Martha?s Vineyard he had promised his sister-in-law. The weather wasn?t that bad. He?d be fine. After all, he was a Kennedy...