Word: demonizations
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...Harvard-Dartmouth rivalry in women's hockey has become more than a game, more than a grudge, more than a battle for number-one. It is now a demon that Harvard must vanquish...
...part, Falun Gong continues to claim that it has no overarching political agenda. Still, the group has taken to describing Jiang Zemin as a "demon worshipper" infected with "Mad Power disease." And on January 1, its mysterious master, New York-based Li Hongzhi, upped the ante by releasing a curious scripture that appeared to allow violence in extreme cases when protesting ill treatment. For some Falun Gong followers, the words were a welcome call to arms. "It is not in Falun Gong's nature to be violent," says a retired teacher, who was arrested last year for her ties...
...Kong and Singapore this week. Produced by Handspring, the U.S. company that also makes the Visor line of digital organizers, the Treo seamlessly combines a mobile phone, PDA, wireless e-mail, short messaging (SMS) and Web surfing into one 160-g package. Surprisingly, it doesn't look like the demon spawn of a phone and a shoe. The gunmetal blue Treo appears to be a big-screen handset. But beneath a clamshell protective cover lies a QWERTY keyboard for surfing, pecking out electronic messages and managing personal data (Handspring also offers a keyboard-less model that, like Palm organizers, relies...
Alcohol, however, will be another matter. With a President in the White House who has forsworn the demon drink, even a sip of sauvignon blanc is going to seem somewhat rude in Washington circles...
...thanks to Buddy and Jerry, the demon seed has been planted. Two years later I am asking my long-suffering parents to bail me out in my failing attempt to purchase a pedal steel on layaway, which I imprudently committed to at the beginning of the year that, by mutual consent with my father, I took off from college to ponder the relative merits of working in a piss factory and attending an Ivy League school. They oblige on a loan, and I tackle the beast. But my first dalliance is too much, too soon: The complexity of the instrument...