Word: controller
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...ease the crunch, the College has recently acquired the Hasty Pudding Theater. College control of the building could give administrators leverage over the ART, as the professional company currently uses the Pudding for its productions when undergraduates are on the Mainstage...
...only successful effort, partial at least, to keep peace in Sierra Leone came when a Nigerian-led force, known as ECOMOG, intervened two years ago to stop the rebels from overrunning the country. But the RUF controlled diamond fields that could finance a long-term insurgency, and when ECOMOG withdrew recently, complaining that the mission was too costly, the RUF became emboldened. The peace deal was supposed to mean giving up their control over the diamond fields, but that wasn't something an exceedingly brutal army - which had adopted systematic dismembering of the civilian population as a tactic...
...better alternative, but the new rules leave them longing for the old rules. White Teeth doesn't harangue or choose sides; it sketches characters that hover on the human edge of caricature. The novel is so sprawling, so audacious, that at times it feels as if Smith has lost control. "It could have done with a huge amount of editing," she concedes...
...years old, Mya says she's taken more control over her sound and her image (she co-wrote several of the songs on Fear of Flying). "This album was an opportunity and a test," she says. Mya was assisted by a stellar group of producers, including Swizz Beatz, Wyclef Jean (of the Fugees) and Rodney Jerkins (who worked on Toni Braxton's sultry new CD, The Heat). On her previous album Mya was a lovestruck teen; on her new album she's a woman coming face to face with romantic entanglements. But, let's face it, the lyrics aren...
...Centers for Disease Control last week named Wisconsin the No. 1 state for adult binge drinking (23.3% of cheeseheads recently knocked back five or more in one sitting). But before the collective judgment of a nation falls on liquored-up Wisconsinites, remember, every state is good at something...