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...chance to abandon politics and take a job as head of a foundation: "The job offered much-needed financial security, a point Michelle was pushing. This was also a pattern in their marriage - she playing the role of the industrious, paycheck-retrieving ant, he the role of the devil-may-car grasshopper. Unafraid of plastic, he had a habit of putting professional expenses on his credit card and neglecting to file for reimbursement...
...process included two major steps: beatification, the pope's recognition that a person is worthy of consideration, which begins a lengthy investigation process; and canonization, the pope's formal recognition that a person is truly a saint. In each case the argument for sainthood would be rebutted by a Devil's Advocate, a person appointed by the Church to argue against the case for sainthood. Before becoming pontiff, Pope Benedict XIV was one of the foremost Devil's Advocates of the 18th century. It wasn't until 1983 that a revised Code of Canon Law was published that included reforms...
...lies in its sex scenes, of which there were many. I’m pretty sure Kathleen—that’s the first nun-witch—sleeps with every male character in the film, and her sister Margaret added two female characters—and the devil incarnate—to their final tally. (To quote a friend, “Those nuns got mad ’sploited.”) These uncomfortable encounters included shaky camerawork as the handheld camcorder filming the scene zoomed in and out unexpectedly. But the highlight of each scene...
...forests in the southeastern reaches of Madagascar that this animal calls home, there is nowhere else it can go. It will be lost. That story is being repeated throughout much of the world, where mammals like the Iberian Lynx, the Pere David's Deer in China and the Tasmanian Devil are all listed as threatened or worse on the IUCN's annual Red List of endangered species...
...sitting on the bench, the Crazies would taunt him, chanting, “in-Hale, ex-Hale.” Creative and devilish. So devilish.Then, in 1984, Maryland’s Herman Veal was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student. In the game at Cameron Indoor, the Blue Devil women collectively threw 1000 pairs of panties onto the court while yelling a collection of cheers I can’t print—although I’d love to. And Duke isn’t even a big school. It’s a private college known more...