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...Antagonist (also known as The Bitch). She loves to play devil??s advocate and isn’t afraid to take your statements out of context to one-up you in the name of zero-sum grade competition. She launches into incredibly articulate diatribes—replete with sophisticated words like “caveat”—until you’re convinced she must be utilizing the power of Satan. Don’t worry: Her stilettos cannot support the weight of her bitchiness for too long. She’ll feel...

Author: By William L. Adams, | Title: The People in My Section | 10/27/2004 | See Source »

...dreams before my helpless sight / He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. / If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace / Behind the wagon that we flung him in, / And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face, like a devil??s sick of sin….My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory / The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, LIBERAL ART | Title: Seeing is Believing | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...It’s a question of the nature of the information that’s being shared and whether it’s legally obtained or not,” Moriarty said. “In any case of a website like this, the devil??s in the details...

Author: By Ivana V. Katic, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Site Lets Elis Share Music Files | 2/10/2004 | See Source »

...Harvard’s milder ironies that vilifying Puritans has become something of a pastime at the College that was once a cradle of the Puritan orthodoxy. In October, on this very page, for instance, Joe P. Flood quoted Ambrose Bierce’s Devil??s Dictionary definitions of Puritanism: “The haunting feeling that someone, somewhere, might be happy” and Puritan: “A pious gentleman, who believed in letting all people do as he liked,” as the epigraph to a column entitled “The Smoke-Free...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Sex in the City on a Hill | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

...addition to scoring the game-winning shot in double overtime against Liberty last weekend, Peljto burned through Central Connecticut’s defense on Wednesday night with 26 points in only 20 minutes, a total almost three times that of the Blue Devil??s leading scorer...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CONTRIBUTINGWRITER | Title: Open and Shut?: Peljto leads W. Hoops into home opener against winless Lafayette | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

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