Word: reigns
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...College to release that data, proving that despite a faade of ethnic, religious and geographic diversity, economic stratification continues to reign on the Harvard campus...
...many of the vigilantes are simply local men pushed too far by the gang- bangers' reign of terror. Last Spring in Villanueva, a shantytown on the edge of San Pedro Sula, homeboys, high on crack, raped and killed a young teenage girl and her mother, hacking their breasts off. The screams brought neighbors who, according to Villanueva police chief Valentino Sandoval, "more or less lynched the gang". After that, there was no shortage of armed men volunteering for nightly anti-gang patrols...
...machine, an ancient workhorse being shunted aside by smaller, cheaper and better gadgets--in the case of Xerox, a sexy array of PCs, printers and scanners. For any office drone who has ever cursed a paper misfeed or the dreaded ADD TONER warning, the end of the copier's reign is welcome. But it has put Xerox, the $19 billion-a-year imaging pioneer, in quite...
...Gucci, wearing Prada shoes, flaunting diamond Rolexes, dripping with Tiffany jewelery, you're not worrying about names or individual identities. They're a concept-interchangeable and a dime a dozen. Ironic, isn't it? They're not bad people, these Pearl Girls. They're just, well, intolerable. But their reign over campuses like Harvard, urban meccas like New York and popular culture is indisputable. Snotty girls rule with attitude and an iron fist. Not only will they be the next editors of Jane and Vanity Fair, but they will also marry rich investment bankers, demand lifetime memberships at exclusive country...
...somewhere along the line, things got screwed up this year. In May, Angelina Jolie was all over the place. Angelina talking about how earth-shattering her sex with Billy Bob Thornton was, Angelina yakking about how she loved self-mutilation, Angelina making out with her brother. But her reign as It Girl ended and Hollywood scurried to find a new subject for ink when she went to film Tomb Raider in London and disappeared from public view...