Word: jacksonism
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...Ledecky has begun devoting personal time to his philanthropy, spending a day a week at the George Jackson Academy in New York, a private school that opened this fall and aims to educate low-income city children in a safe environment...
Verba seems confident that she will rise to the challenge, citing her extensive credentials and familiarity with Harvard’s confusing structure.“The only organizational chart of Harvard University I’ve ever seen is at the Museum of Modern Art, painted by Jackson Pollock,” he jokes, adding that Sniffin-Marinoff’s tenure at Radcliffe will ensure she is comfortable in her new position...
...attorneys last week were BALCO notebooks that contain circumstantial evidence, such as a training calendar with the initials M.J. and letters whose meaning is not clear but that may be abbreviations for certain steroids. While that may not look good for Jones, it's equally possible that Michael Jackson has just been bulking up with nutritional supplements...
...exactly when it happened, but sometime in the past decade it became acceptable for country music--loving tough guys to shed the occasional manly tear. Now Nashville's big guns want buckets. For those who gulped their way through George Strait's Desperately and sat stoically by as Alan Jackson asked Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning), McGraw has composed the toughest test to date: call it Tuesdays with Morrie, the ballad. McGraw wrote this elegy following the death of his father, charismatic ex-Big League pitcher Tug McGraw, from cancer in January. Lyrically, it's shameless...
...Unlike other Presidents-except, perhaps, for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson-Reagan came to power as the leader of an ideological movement: in his case, a fierce conservatism forged and tempered by decades of disdain from the nation's moderate media and political establishment. In retrospect, the movement provided a necessary corrective for the slowly corroding industrial-age liberalism favored by the Democrats who controlled Congress. Reagan's followers were so eager for success that they were willing to tolerate some flagrant inconsistencies in his governance. His big 1981 tax cut was followed by two years of large, if undramatized...