Word: techs
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Beck's surround sound plays like a mix of colonial pamphleteering, Great Depression demagoguery and the movie Red Dawn. But is he serious? He describes himself as a "rodeo clown," and he is a talented TV showman - joking and self-effacing, with a gift for big visuals and low-tech explainer stunts like his Jenga bit. Unlike O'Reilly et al., he's not a shouter. He calls his program "the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment...
...Every member of the cast and crew plays a part in spicing things up, from the tech crew chilling in the sound booth and the band in the depths of the pit to the bawdy and salacious cast onstage. The spontaneous and covert are preferred when keeping everyone on point...
While the cast is the public face of the Hasty Pudding, the crew and the band are just as important—and mischievous. The tech crew, for example, has its own special nights, one of which is called “Pants-less Booth Night...
...April 3, Vietnamese immigrant Jiverly Wong, 41, walked into an immigration-services center in Binghamton, N.Y., and opened fire, killing 13 people in the worst mass shooting in the U.S. since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. The following day, three Pittsburgh, Penn., police officers responding to a domestic disturbance were killed by 23-year-old Richard Poplawski. In both cases, the suspects were wearing body armor. Wong ultimately took his own life; police eventually took Poplawski into custody after a four-hour standoff, charging him with three counts of criminal homicide and nine counts of attempted homicide as well...
...Besides the F-22, other casualties will be a new search-and-rescue helicopter and the Army's Future Combat Systems program - a $160 billion fleet of high-tech vehicles and aircraft that is ideal for waging war against a powerfully armed nation-state but is of far less use for the kinds of counterinsurgency wars currently being waged. And the Navy's shipbuilding program, which has been shoddily run for years, will see some cuts. Gates also plans to cut spending on missile defense by $1.4 billion next year, while new satellite communications programs are trimmed. And the Marines...