Word: demonic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...game will probably decide the Ivy title, because—listen up, seniors—Yale doesn’t stand a chance in The Game if Harvard rolls into town with eight straight victories. For the first time in four years, the Crimson ought to exorcise the Bulldog demon...
...Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Italy, France and England. (All the works are in English.) Not surprisingly the comix themselves are as unconventional as their package. One book has been designed to look like screen shots of a lost Atari 2600 video game about a prince and an onion-soup-loving demon. Andrej Stular's "Hole" has a single panel per page - an inky, scratchy image of urban grief accompanied by a word or phrase that may or may not connect to the next page. Most of the works follow absurd or dreamlike structures. It seems to be part of the psyche...
...their war with the Soviet Union and tolerance of the extreme interpretation of Islam being taught by Wahhabism-based schools in Saudi Arabia—contributed to the development of radical Islamist sentiments throughout the Muslim world. It is clear that in encouraging pan-Islamism to exorcize the Soviet demon, we helped create the Islamist demon of today...
...first glance, it's hard to imagine two men less alike. Bush has had his share of verbal stumbles; Churchill never uttered a sentence that didn't stiffen spines. Bush is fit; Churchill was whatever is fitness's opposite. Bush has forsworn the demon drink; when Churchill stayed with Roosevelt in the White House over Christmas 1941, he instructed Roosevelt's butler that he needed a tumbler of sherry in his room before breakfast, a couple of glasses of Scotch and soda before lunch, and French champagne and 90-year-old brandy before he went to sleep. About the only...
While new housing generally doesn't warrant more than a fleeting stomach knot over the sacrifice of yet another field to the demon sprawl, the Sunrise project, as Kennecott has dubbed the 40,000-person development, will stand at the unlikely intersection of the latest in urban planning and new pressures on the mining business. A planned community a la New Urbanism, Sunrise will offer residents jobs and stores just a walk away, along with trees, parks and affordable housing for diverse incomes. The city of South Jordan, where Sunrise will be located, entitled the land...