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...BOTTOM LINE: Meryl Streep shines in a glitzy black comedy, but it's still She-Devil with a make-over...
...reflection not on the athletes themselves, but on those of us who would demand perfection of them. We ask them to be exemplars in every aspect of their lives, and they mock our reverence daily. In that sense, the people who worship athletes can be a little like the devil, leading their redeemer up to a high place and then showing him all the pleasures of the world. "All this," we say, "I will give to you, if only you will show yourself better -- as well as no better -- than the rest of us." A single American baseball player today...
...boasted of building a $100 million real estate empire, and lectured thousands of Miami-area residents on "How to Move from Poverty to Riches." Yahweh ben Yahweh, whose name in Hebrew means "God the Son of God," says he is the son of God and that whites are "the devil," seeking to enslave blacks economically and spiritually. Appearing in white robes and a turban throughout his five-month trial, the leader quoted the Bible often and denied the charges that he had ordered the murder of black defectors from his cause and the slicing of ears from randomly selected white...
...this is happening, of course, because the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact no longer exist. In place of the devil we knew is a threat represented on the briefers' charts by an eerie phrase: THE UNKNOWN AND THE UNCERTAIN. Instead of preparing to fight World War III, the Pentagon is planning to deal with what the charts call MRCS, or major regional conflicts. The National Security Agency, which eavesdrops on real and potential enemies around the world, is retiring Russian speakers to make room for specialists in Farsi and Swahili. One of the few categories of procurement that...
...CHILDREN SPOKE SOLEMNLY OF SODOMY, ANImal sacrifice, fire and snakes. One boy claimed that Robert Kelly Jr., who operated the Little Rascals day-care center in Edenton, N.C., prayed to the devil. A girl said Kelly, the balding former golf pro they called Mr. Bob, raped and drugged her, then photographed her performing sexual acts with another child. Another boy said Mr. Bob took the children on a boat trip and pushed him overboard to the sharks...