Word: reines
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Cable's pay channels -- primarily HBO, Showtime and Cinemax -- early on discovered comedy as a fertile source of original programming. With no network censors to contend with, stand-up comics had virtually free rein in language and subject matter. Comedy concerts featuring everyone from Rodney Dangerfield to Eddie Murphy quickly became staples of the cable schedule. Comedy series inevitably came next. Some, like Showtime's Brothers and HBO's 1st & Ten, have been only marginally different from routine network fare. But HBO's Not Necessarily the News, now in its fifth year, offers welcome dollops of topical (if frequently toothless...
Ultimately, colleges may be able to do only so much to rein in rising tuitions. With their commitment to speculative scientific research, large faculties and out-of-favor subjects like classics, they may be what University of Rochester President Dennis O'Brien calls "inefficient in principle." For students intent on a name-brand sheepskin, that principle is likely to remain an expensive one, at least for the foreseeable future...
...Pontiff continued to speak but at times held his head in sorrow, and later declared, "Love is stronger than hate." After leaving Santiago, John Paul visited six other Chilean cities before departing for Argentina, where church and state are at odds over government efforts to legalize divorce and rein in trade unions...
...Other league. That's Hockey East. It was formed three years ago when Ivy athletic directors threatened to put a rein on the increasing professionalization of college hockey. Boston College won the Hockey East regular season and post-season tournament this year and is the number one seed in the East...
...director, Davenport seems to have allowed her actors free rein to interpret their character as they choose and only the aforementioned actors and Mark Levine as another friend have the discipline to keep Davenport's flat characters from fading into the background. Like Davenport's direction, Jennifer Bucksbaum's pepless choreography might as well not be there at all. The occasionally good acting and sometimes clever songs cannot fill all the voids the make It's Really Me really unsatisfying...