Word: deviled
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...knowledge of Saudi financial backing for terrorists. The fact that Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens has focused attention on the kingdom's role as a breeding ground for religious extremism. So former CIA agent Robert Baer's new book, Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude (Crown; 226 pages), is nothing if not timely. It offers a picture of the Saudi royal family as degenerate, dangerous and doomed...
...vote. Qarase's government is dominated by indigenous Fijians, who make up just over half of the nation's population. Racial tensions have been a major cause of political instability in a country that has seen three coups in 16 years. MEANWHILE IN THE U.S. ... May the Devil Take you A bereaved New Mexico family is suing its local Catholic church over a funeral mass in which the priest allegedly said the deceased was only a "lukewarm" Catholic and would go straight to hell. The church says the clergyman was merely reciting from the scriptures...
...president that I'm turning over to. He's sworn into office. And he's going to be sworn in while they're here. One would see maybe a good working week, and no more than a good working week. If it's not the work of the devil, I don't know what it is. I mean, can anyone quarrel about orderly transition...
Chicago Cubs slugger SAMMY SOSA was caught using a corked bat in a game against Tampa Bay. Sosa, the only major leaguer ever to hit 60 home runs in three different seasons, and who shouldn't need a corked bat to thrash the hapless Devil Rays anyway, says the incident was an accident: he picked up the wrong bat. X rays of 76 (!) other bats from Sosa's locker all turned up negative (though the inquiry did determine the cause of global deforestation), but Major League Baseball handed him an eight-game suspension. Sosa is appealing the decision...
...some of his 12-year-old daughter Teresa's afterschool volleyball games, though he still manages to take the kids to their classes at the Ukrainian cultural center on Saturdays. (The family speaks Ukrainian at home.) Sosenko has always been a bit moody. His office is littered with Tasmanian-devil toys given to him by his family, an inside joke alluding to his occasional temper. But nowadays he is regularly depressed and irritable. "Alex takes everything to heart," says his wife Maria, 46, a rheumatologist (whose malpractice premiums nearly doubled this year, from...