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STARBUCKS + JIM BEAM The ubiquitous coffee chain won't sell this new Kahlua-like liqueur in its stores. But after successfully marketing coffee ice cream, the brewing champ is going into bars...
...couple of days each week to the districts of G.O.P. lawmakers and "persuadable" Democrats. But tactics are getting rougher. Shadegg believes that liberal groups were behind the onslaught he faced in Phoenix, and the George Soros--funded Campaign for America's Future has launched newspaper ads accusing Louisiana Republican Jim McCrery of supporting Bush's plan because investment companies donated to his campaigns. A top Republican adviser says members are telling him they will need better ammunition before facing constituents again during the Easter recess. If the momentum can't be turned around by then, an already difficult fight will...
...thing is sure: My Jim is not likely to touch off anything like the controversy its predecessor did—or, for that matter, that Alice Randall did with her 2001 book The Wind Done Gone, a parody of Margaret Mitchell’s classic. While there is historical usefulness and emotional impact in every such account of the horrors of slavery, the episodes Rawles describes are, unfortunately, relatively familiar, as are the theoretical arguments for and against the kinds of linguistic and rhetorical techniques she employs (which Richard Wright first dismissed in Zora Neale Hurston...
...with Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas has become. His complaint could serve as a harsh but not wholly inaccurate description of Rawles’ book. Rawles—or perhaps those marketing her—seem to have failed to recognize that the moral complexities My Jim purports to expose are already present in Huck’s own narrative. While Rawles has provided a reasonably interesting supplement to Twain’s book, her “nuanced critique” articulates few moral problems that weren’t already implicit in the work...
Story: James Hong and Jim Young founded HotOrNot in their living room and that is where it has stayed. The site is making money – not millions, but enough to survive, Facebook founder and friend Jonathan Abrams says. Hong and Young have turned down buy-out and investment offers – putting living room fun over corporate malaise...