Word: controller
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...state had been proven innocent, Illinois Gov. George Ryan issued a moratorium on executions. Though commendable, this action presupposes that capital punishment is a method we ought to use, that perhaps, if we could change the way it is administered, it would be a desirable method of crime control. However, it is not the potential for racial bias or the risk that people on death row may actually be innocent that makes capital punishment a less than ideal method of crime prevention. Nor is it the fact that we know that capital punishment is not useful as a deterrent. Rather...
More impressively, Clemente took control of the game at times and was easily the most talented player on either team...
...Yuri Andropov, the former KGB chief who ruled the Soviet Union in the early '80s and pressed for modernization of the economy while maintaining an authoritarian grip on society and a competitive relationship with the West. Putin appears to have made the right noises on economics and arms control, but stood firm on Chechnya and against U.S. efforts to renegotiate the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty...
...speed with which the closely watched case is proceeding. According to TIME columnist Jack White, who's covering the trial in the upstate New York capital this week, we can thank the presiding judge for these happy surprises. "Judge [Joseph] Terisi is extremely efficient - he has complete control over this trial," says White. "He's responsible for the speedy selection of jurors and also for diversity of the jury; no one in Albany can remember another jury with so many blacks...
...Deutch's computer without his knowledge," says TIME technology reporter Chris Taylor. "It would have appeared as an attachment on an e-mail message, and he would have had to open it to activate it. The program, once it installed itself, would allow the interlopers to view and control his computer from a remote location." There's no proof that this did (or didn't) happen, but all the same, Deutch was stripped of his security clearance in August, when Tenet learned of the breach. Tenet, meanwhile, is trying desperately to distance himself from his former boss's misbehavior...