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A high-security prison has become "like an airport" with so many drones flying in drugs, inspectors have said.

He didn’t suddenly become like this at the end of his life.

She’s just back from a trip to MTV’s Video Music Awards in New York to support Carpenter, who’s “become like a sister to me,” she says; before that, she was in Europe opening a string of concerts by Bleachers, the rock band led by producer Jack Antonoff, who also worked on “Short n’ Sweet.”

For Holly, crew become like family on extended voyages.

The single “New Girl,” which had been released three years earlier on the band’s 1996 album “Destruction by Definition,” “almost had to become like an encore song because it became such a popular song,” Navarro said.