Word: devil
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...speak to them would have left the tigers of Burma on their own, defenseless. On this issue, at least, engagement yields far more than isolation - and Rabinowitz deserves credit for a political courage no less real than his physical bravery, for being willing to sit down with the devil, occasionally, to save a tiger...
SCOTT WALKER, mayor of Reeves, La., which will change its phone prefix from 666 so that residents won't have a number that is associated in Christianity with the devil...
...John C. Reilly, a leading man whose most memorable role for Apatow’s audience (or anyone else’s, really) is Cal Naughton, Jr. in “Talladega Nights.” Third, as his eighth production in four years, Apatow is dancing with the devil of overexposure. The fickle 16-to-25-year-old male demographic that has long buttered his bread could turn on him at any moment, and any slip-up could be fatal. Fortunately for Apatow and the rest of that populist-comedy cabal known as the “Frat Pack?...
...Russell Crowe, excellent in two hits (3:10 to Yuma and Am Gang), was snubbed by the HFPA. Philip Seymour Hoffman got two nominations, for Charlie Wilson and The Savages (my favorite '60s garage band, BTW), but not for the bleaker, in fact bleakest movie, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, which got shut out. Charlie Wilson, which comes out Christmas day, is a true-life kinda comedy about a Texas Congressman who funded the Afghan rebels against the invading Soviets in the 1980s. It's a feel-good war-on-terror movie, and it was cited five times...
...chance of leaving a record as the man who finally set Venezuela and Latin America on a real course toward solving terrible inequality and not as just another overweening Latin leftist who stayed too long. Chvez insisted to TIME last year that "capitalism is the way of the devil." But while Chvez has used his oil windfalls to reduce poverty, Venezuelans suggest they want to increase satanic capitalist investment to solve their nagging unemployment...