Word: controller
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...said the freedom that cable networks allow has given him more creative control over his writing...
...matter. The audience laughs just as much whether the material is good or lame. But there's the rub. DeGeneres has lost her barometer for testing laughworthiness. There's no quality control like a tough room, and all the rooms DeGeneres plays are warm and nurturing. It's as if she honed her routine by doing it for her mother and a thousand doting aunts. One of the reasons comedians make us laugh is that they see the world differently from us. They're ridiculously paranoid or filthy minded or clumsy. But Ellen is very warmly embraced by loads...
What's next after genetic decoding? Will we be able to control our feelings and desires? Will we control every aspect of our lives? The discovery will surely help scientists gain more insight into diseases such as cancer and AIDS, but will people use this to benefit others or simply to create the "perfect" person? SOPHIA MALIK Dallas...
Civil rights advocates argue that the law, aside from requiring ESP to recognize "specific intent," quashes free speech and is a thinly veiled crowd-control mechanism, and not necessarily one that works. Seattle had passed an emergency two-day gas-mask ban to little effect. Detroit passed one too, anticipating trouble at a June meeting of the Organization of American States, but the law was never used. "How in heaven's name can the average officer know what the 'intent' of the masked individual is?" asks Stefan Presser of Pennsylvania's A.C.L.U. "What the officers are going...
Second Amendment Sisters (Saturday, July 29): Anti-gun-control group says it will have 400 flags up, each symbolizing what it says are 1,000 lives saved by guns every year, totaling 400,000 lives...