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April 2009: The NHTSA receives another petition, this one to investigate throttle-control problems unrelated to floor-mat issues in Lexus ES vehicles...
...don’t think we were sharp on the power play, and at times we looked disorganized in what we were trying to do,” said Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91. “ We certainly were able to get the puck in control, but weren’t able to get the shots and get traffic and second and third opportunities...
...fondly calling his “ladies.” The snakes, who Sosa names Beti, Loli, Valentina, and Carmela, are the impetus for his transformation into Bustillo; terrified when he first realizes their presence, he quickly grasps: “If I could manage to keep myself under control... concentrate enough so they’d feel my vibrations and understand that I was the new Don Jacinto, I’d be saved.” They are also his accomplices, sustenance, and lovers as he goes on an impulsive rampage through the city, taking incidental revenge...
...film critics, violence is a characteristic trait of photography and cinema, as evident in the very language of “aiming” a camera and “shooting” an image. Enmeshed in the sexual economy of the gaze, vision too exercises a system of control over women’s bodies. Positioning the self against an inassimilable (female) other, the eye serves as an explicit instrument of objectification and mastery. As feminist Luce Irigaray theorizes, the supremacy of looking over all other sensory experiences—hearing, smelling, tasting, touching—has effected...
...indigenous people of Central California were doing," says Saint Onge, who published his theory last fall in the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. "It wasn't just the daily simpleton tasks of hunter-gatherers. They were actually monitoring the stars." (See the Native American struggle to regain control of their legacy...