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According to Wilson, the two would play"devil's advocate" to one another. Today she callsSheerr a "devoted volunteer leader...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: How the Deal Was Done | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...trial won't end with Volpe's guilty plea -- there are four officers left to go. Two stand accused of beating Louima before Volpe took over, one of covering up afterward, and one, Charles Schwarz, of holding Louima down while Volpe went to work. Which is where Volpe, the "Devil in a Blue Suit" of demonstrators' placards, may reenter the negotiations. "We may now hear from Volpe as to what Schwarz did or didn't do during the incident," says Cohen. "That's the only thing he has to offer prosecutors." Once the blue wall falls, anyone can get crushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Despicable for the Blue Wall of Silence | 5/25/1999 | See Source »

...been obvious that a Dole presidency could include just the sort of unfortunate incident that occurred in Quincy, Ill., last week. As a veteran politician put it, "When you elect someone with a step counter on her staff, you should know that what you're definitely not getting is devil-may-care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Step Counting: The First 100 Days | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...wasteland of the southern California desert and the feral terrain of the Mexican badlands, the barren landscape echoes the devastation and unspeakable immorality that festers there. Cyrus, the embodiment of pure, savage evil, is the leader of a devil-worshipping cult, the Left-Handed Path, whose lust for blood knows no limits. In a savage and seemingly senseless double-murder, a 14-year-old girl, Gabi, is kidnapped. Her father, Bob Hightower, with his ex-wife dead and his daughter missing, is more desperate than he ever imagined possible. A small-town cop, Bob frantically investigates every lead...

Author: By Emily SUMMER Dill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Somewhere in Sands of the Desert | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

Perhaps SINEAD O'CONNOR doesn't realize that rock 'n' roll, which she sings, is the devil's music, or that Roman Catholicism, in which she was recently ordained by a rebel sect, does not allow women in the clergy. Come to think of it, O'Connor doesn't seem to get this whole religion thing at all. Last week the woman who in 1992 tore up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live became the first female priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, a Roman Catholic splinter group. Days before the ordination in Lourdes, France, O'Connor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 10, 1999 | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

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