Word: jims
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...Crimson came out on top of the extra-inning contest by virtue of a walk. Harvard second baseman Jim Mrowka started the ninth inning with a single, advanced to second on a sacrifice, and moved to third on a wild pitch. With one out, Navy decided to walk the bases full, which meant bypassing the bottom of the order to get to Harvard Captain Tom Konjoyan...
Daytime work was expected of Quayle (he had waited on tables at DePauw), and his father suggested working in the office of Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar. The father called his friend, fellow Pulliam editor Stan Evans. According to Evans, "Jim asked me to lunch with Dan. I did most of the talking and learned for the first time that he wanted to go to law school. I said I thought it would be better to work in the ((state)) attorney general's office than in the city government, since I knew that many of the people who worked there were...
Though Cincinnati's reputation for conservatism is well deserved -- "Decency Central," local columnist Jim Rohrer calls it -- the city is hardly unique. Says Alfred Tuchfarber, a University of Cincinnati pollster: "Hamilton County tracks the nation perfectly on major social and moral issues." A poll released Friday by the Cincinnati Post and Tuchfarber's Institute for Policy Research showed that 58.9% of those questioned thought the Mapplethorpe exhibit should be allowed. Only 38.4% felt it should...
...started it," claimed Texas attorney general Jim Mattox, pictured in political cartoons as the aging "Mutant Ninja Candidate." "No, he started it," says state treasurer Ann Richards, the winner of last Tuesday's mud- splattered, swamp-dwelling Texas Democratic gubernatorial runoff...
...black family over whether to hunker down under white racism or risk ambition and disappointment. But unlike Fences, a kitchen-sink drama firmly grounded in reality, Piano Lesson seems haunted by specters of the brutal past -- as haunted as the U.S. still is by the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow. Director Lloyd Richards and a splendid cast give the script the production it deserves. That was not, alas, the Broadway fate in 1988 of Wilson's gripping but mishandled and commercially disastrous Joe Turner's Come and Gone...