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...never been shy about taking on his critics. But that's hard to do when they are an invisible band of roving black propaganda-meisters. On March 23 the PM used his weekly national radio address to warn the kingdom about a plot to undermine his government. Thaksin said "devilish" forces have been paying an army of henchmen to ride in cabs and say terrible things about him-in the nefarious hope that the cabbies would pass the criticism on to other fares. "They're damaging the country, but I won't waver," a resolute Thaksin assured his undoubtedly alarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...than in taking advantage of the Duke connection. You claim that your column was just about your love of Blue Devils basketball. Perhaps underlying that self-professed love is a lonely man seeking a connection by reaching out to people with a shared interest for all things blue and devilish...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Timely Visit With Dr. Love | 3/7/2002 | See Source »

...teenage boys. Bratt was tapped as a replacement after the producers caught his performance as a streetwise muralist in the barely released 1997 drama Follow Me Home. "When you look at Miguel's eyes and you look at Ben's eyes," says Ichaso, "there's something enchanting and devilish." The son of a Peruvian mother and a Caucasian father, Bratt says he was drawn to Pinero's "sense of marginalization. He wrote about the most raw, gritty, ugly things that exist in society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Benjamin Bratt | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...about becoming older and wiser. It seems he is so sick of being the front man for the guitar-driven, anti-utopian Stones that he has thrown too much caution to the wind in embracing milder music. If he had held on to a little more of the Stones' devilish sound, his spiritual satisfaction might be easier to take. But given tunes as syrupy as these, the appropriate response to a song titled God Gave Me Everything can only be a ringing, "Keep it to yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: As Good As Yesterday? | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

...while my mind traversed these paths of catastrophic mechanical failure, the idea of a hijacking never entered my mind, not even once. My thoughts were well ensconced in the man vs. nature theme—with nature exacting a devilish price for the sheer hubris of man—not deranged and self-righteous men taking the lives of countless innocents. Hijackings were things that happened to airliners of other more fractious nations, or in the decade just prior to my existence—the bleary and shadowy 1970s...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Imagination Overdrive | 10/10/2001 | See Source »

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