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Harvard distinguished itself at the national level this year beyond season-ending awards. On Sunday, Wake Forest beat Penn State 2-0 to win the NCAA Championship. The Demon Deacons closed out the year with 19 straight wins and only trailed on four occasions during that stretch. One of those deficits was in a 3-2 victory over Harvard at Jordan Field...
...Even so, he is enough of a storyteller to never let us go too long without some adventure. Issue 16 has Promethea perilously sink to the bottom of a literal ocean of emotion. In issue 18 she slips into the anti-Kabbalah system of Qlippoth where she encounters the demon Asmodeus. In this world of rage and hate, he appears to her as a giant spider. Then, with a typically clever bit humor, once Promethea gets a hold of herself and apologizes for intruding, Asmodeus changes into a English...
...their leaders, and converting them to Christianity.” She has said that “not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” Referring to the leading prophet of Islam, she states, “To say that Muhammad was a demon-possessed pedophile is not an attack. It’s a fact...
...Anthony Wong?s Wong Chi-hang, the demon butcher of Macau in ?The Untold Story,? might be seen as a figure of black comedy - a fiercer sibling of the woman in Roald Dahl?s 1953 story ?Lamb to the Slaughter.? In both tales the killer feeds the evidence to the police: in ?Lamb? the cops eat the the murder weapon; in ?Untold Story? they eat the corpse, which Wong has chopped into pieces and cooked into pork buns. Yet we know this is no comedy from the look on the actor?s face. It is a glower of implacable rage...
...useful contacts dancing in our heads. Our crusades are personal and concrete; we know the dangers of idealism, and how little Don Quixote’s pasteboard visor offers. Our early modern literary avatar is not Cervantes’ daydreaming knight but Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, who, demon-beguiled, weighs profit against loss and trades his soul for fame and money...