Taming the archives

So how would you tame the archive boundaries? If in hierarchical mode, it seems no matter how long the title is, it will be forced to display as a single line, no word wrap for you. Even if I manually insert a in the title, makes no difference. So, what's left? A hike into blogger's CSS overcoat? Yes, but until then, I truncated the title, ending it with a saturated comma,