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...Contrary to what is said in The Usual Suspects, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was not convincing the world he didn’t exist. In fact, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the writers of The Usual Suspects to write that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Things We Know | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

Spearheading the Blue Devil attack, Central Connecticut forward Elena Kalnina led all scorers with 13 first-half points...

Author: By Sean W. Coughlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Hoops Holds On For Sloppy Win | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...strictly "journalistic" purposes I picked up a few, including "Almas Perversas" ("Perverse Souls"), "La Chambeadoras" ("The Chambermaids") and "El Carruaje Diabolico" ("The Devil's Carriage.") "Almas Perversas" has the most notorious reputation, and it becomes Raeburn's touchstone. The issue I got seems to be about a man whose wife confesses that their voluptuous daughter is not his. He smothers the wife and gets the daughter drunk at the funeral, then rapes her. Once she learns of her true genealogy, she becomes his lover, in spite of his hand getting mangled in an unrelated, purely sensational work accident. Now handless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living La Vida Perversa | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

...going to sup with the devil, it helps to have more than a long spoon. You should also take a minute to figure out what the old beast wants to eat. It might be you. That is a lesson the British royal family has never learned. For more than a quarter of a century, the royals have been complicit in a bizarre, co-dependent relationship with British media and pop culture. In return for making themselves more accessible to the public gaze, the royals hoped that their claim to deference would be extended for generations to come. Since 1969, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Royals Miss Diana | 11/17/2002 | See Source »

...reading about the sins of the stars in the tell-all, show-all local press. But where else have they to go for sick thrills? The golden age of Hong Kong horror is dead - as dead as a fellow who?s just seen his wife have sex with a devil fetus and jumped screaming from an upstairs window. Fortunately for us, it?s also able to be revived, in zombie form, on home video and, lustrously, in the occasional repertory theater. For those connoisseurs who mourn the genre?s passing, and those holy virgins who never knew it lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Hong Kong Horrors! | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

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