Word: demonism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...phones Fidelity more than 9,000 times in a year. Or the woman who demands help in selecting 10 outfits, tries them all on and leaves without buying even a belt. "They may not be demons as individuals, but they are killing your stock," writes Larry Selden, a Columbia Business School professor, and Geoffrey Colvin, FORTUNE's senior editor at large, in their book Angel Customers & Demon Customers, which hits stores in early June. Business people have always known that some customers aren't worth the trouble. Now Selden and Colvin show, through vivid examples, how much companies can gain...
...evangelist Franklin Graham. Both operations are associated with sharp criticism of Islam, the faith of 97% of Iraqis. Graham, who gave the invocation at George W. Bush's Inaugural, has called it a "very evil and wicked religion," and a former SBC president dubbed Muhammad a "demon-possessed pedophile...
...Chinese films and music; a suicide, having jumped from a hotel terrace; in Hong Kong. Though best known to American audiences as the tragic artist in Farewell My Concubine, he also played the soft naif (A Better Tomorrow), the wily warrior (The Bride with White Hair) and the demon romancer (Happy Together). Early death has assured his standing as the great tragic male diva of the late 20th century...
...puckered or pouted?had the impact of a struck match. The screen flared to life; suddenly there was heat, and the incense of sulfur. To see him as the hurtful teddy boy in Days of Being Wild, the proud warrior in The Bride with White Hair and the dominant demon romancer in Phantom Lover is to realize there's nothing more exhilarating than a trip to hell with him at the wheel...
Sure, there are other vampire slayers, but the whole demon-destroying enterprise would just feel empty without Buffy, which is why the series will come to an end in May now that SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR has revealed to ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY that the current season will be her last. Gellar says she wants to end the show while it is still admired by fans. She'll next shoot the sequel to Scooby-Doo, another project with a whiff of the supernatural: though critics desperately tried to bury it, the movie series stubbornly lives...