Word: demonism
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Wake Forest is the highest-ranked opponent the Crimson has faced all season. The Demon Deacons placed third in the ACC--the nation's toughest conference--behind No. 2 North Carolina and No. 3 Maryland...
...Demon Deacons defense has been even more stellar than Harvard's this season. Wake Forest has shut out 10 opponents and only allowed four teams to score more than a goal in a single game, namely the four other teams in the ACC. It would be difficult for Harvard to come back if its defense is the first to falter...
Harvard and its first-round foe Wake Forest have not had a single common opponent this year. The Demon Deacons were the third-best team in the ACC, the nation's strongest conference...
...story hangs on the testimony of an interested party. But according to Father Gabriele Amorth, exorcist for the Diocese of Rome, the heir to the throne of St. Peter recently spent half an hour struggling--literally--with a demon from hell. Pope John Paul II was conducting his regular Wednesday audience on Sept. 6 when there was reportedly a disturbance in the front row. A 19-year-old woman began screaming insults in what Italian newspapers called "a cavernous voice." Struggling with guards, she displayed "a superhuman strength." The frail Pontiff did not hesitate. After the apparent demoniac was hurried...
...possessed woman is one of Amorth's tougher patients (he says he didn't witness the incident but was told about it later); and the Pope, he claims, had no better luck in dislodging the demon. After the Pontiff left, a voice was heard to speak through her: "Not even [the] head [of the church] can send me away." Odd as the story may sound, it is the third reported instance of John Paul's attempting to cast out a demon (the others took place in 1978 and 1982). At a time when official exorcists are being added by several...