Word: controllers
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...Cockney living in Panama City tricks money out of British intelligence by stitching up a plot involving Asians' taking over the Panama Canal. In real-life Panama, the story is no less peculiar: a new President is about to be sworn in amid charges that the government has switched control of the canal to a company allegedly controlled by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The catfight over that is just a preview. The canal handover--the U.S. will pass the waterway over to Panama at noon on Dec. 31--is unleashing political separation anxiety in the U.S. and everything...
...Councillors most vehement about Walsh's removal are those who, unlike Walsh, favor Cambridge's system of rent control. We at Dartboard wonder if Walsh and his opponents are really so far apart. Walsh used a realestate scheme to line his pockets at a bank's expense, his opponents used an equally odious scheme to line their constituents' pockets at landowners' expense. Walsh just made the mistake of indulging his cupidity privately, rather than under color of law. Such is logic in the People's Republic of Cambridge...
Silverglate said that his client made no money from the software. LaMacchia was only responsible for setting up the system, and did not "control what was put on the system," theattorney's statement said...
...photographers pursuing the car through the Paris streets. In his decision, released Friday, Judge Herv? Stephan said that the accident was "due to the fact that the driver of the car was inebriated and under the effects of drugs incompatible with alcohol, which did not allow him to maintain control of his vehicle." Fayed was also responsible, the judge ruled, for ordering a drunken Paul to drive their Mercedes as they left the Ritz hotel...
...qualified outsider to lead an investigation, her department also filed a motion Tuesday challenging U.S. District Judge Walter Smith?s right to claim custody of all evidence relating to the siege collected at the Branch Davidian compound. Judge Smith, whose district is in Texas, ruled that he would take control of the evidence following a motion brought by the Texas Public Safety Commission to make evidence gathered at the massacre site available to civil litigants, the media and members of the public...