Word: controller
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...indictment in Salt Lake overshadowed other news from a Denver courtroom that may ultimately prove far more troublesome for the Olympics. In filing a wrongful-termination lawsuit, Dr. Wade Exum, director of the U.S.O.C.'s drug-control unit for nine years before he stepped down under pressure last month, charged among other things that his bosses systematically covered up illicit drug use. "In recent years, absolutely no sanction has been imposed on roughly half of all the American athletes who have treated positive for prohibited substances," Exum alleged. He said that his tests had turned up "scores" of athletes using...
...Chinese embassy officials in Washington were unapologetic when confronted with news of the seizure. "It is the consistent policy of the government to actually control the political content of printed materials," one spokesman told the New York Times. But it remains unclear why the Chinese government chose to zero in on this particular book or this publisher. There is speculation that the photo in question, which shows President Clinton gripping the Dalai Lama?s hand during a tete a tete in Vice President Gore?s office (the White House decided to arrange the meeting outside the Oval Office in hopes...
...cities with the fastest-rising house prices. "This is no coincidence," says Ross DeVol, an economist at the Milken Institute in Los Angeles, a nonprofit think tank. "The indirect effect of [dotcoms'] being there is that landlords jack up the rates on everyone else. It's out of control...
...naive, of course, to credit or blame any President for how the stock market moves during his tenure since so much is beyond his control. Can Clinton really claim responsibility for the Internet? Rightly or wrongly, though, Americans ascribe their fortunes to the party in the White House even if the times more accurately reflect initiatives flowing from a hostile Congress--or at least the gridlock that a hostile Congress sustains...
...lucky golden retriever of a guy--when his dog cheerfully buries his snout in her crotch. Lawyer Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), cohabiting with scruffy bartender Steve, agrees to buy a pooch with him, and it becomes a metaphor for their unworkable relationship. Husband-hunting Charlotte (Kristin Davis) learns to control her new fiance with a hand on the wrist: Roll over, boy! Then there's Carrie's on-and-off-and-on squeeze Mr. Big (Chris Noth), a sexy, powerful (and married) alpha wolf...