Word: controller
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After two years of intense and often strained negotiations, Radcliffe College agreed to merge with Harvard last spring. The negotiations pitted a Radcliffe delegation bent on preserving the college's identity against Harvard deal makers who wanted to assume full control over undergraduates...
Faust will control a $350 million endowment and is expected to create a world-class research center out of a Radcliffe still unsure about its identity...
...greatest opportunity he was ever handed. He says he expected his decision to go to war in Chechnya, made virtually that August day, would ruin his political career. But his cold-blooded prosecution of the war to stamp out Chechen "terrorism" and bring the recalcitrant republic back under Russian control struck a chord among the country's dispirited electorate...
...stake for CANF is nothing less than its role as Miami's Tammany Hall--and as arbiter of Washington's Cuba policy. Its authoritarian control has weakened in recent years, as has public support for the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. Last fall, CANF leaders were desperate to counter Castro's planned visit to the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, and were saved when Elian washed up as their poster boy. Millionaire chairman Jorge Mas denies the lobby is using Elian: "Our mission is to ensure that this boy gets his due process of law." But he adds...
Consider what happened with Rezulin, the diabetes drug that was taken off the market last week. The FDA approved the medication in 1997 after tests on 3,000 people showed that it could help control Type 2 (formerly adult-onset) diabetes, which affects 15 million Americans. Although some test subjects developed abnormal liver reactions, no one suffered permanent damage, and no one died. Now that millions have taken Rezulin, however, it has been linked to at least 90 cases of liver failure, 63 of which resulted in death...