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...devil. No, no for America. No, no for the occupation. No, no for Israel.' MUQTADA AL-SADR, radical Shi'ite cleric, emerging in public for the first time in months, in a fiery anti-American sermon in the holy Shi'ite city of Kufa. He called for U.S. forces to leave Iraq, but vowed to defend Sunnis and Christians...
...the devil's in the details. And any serious climate-change legislation will be a forest of details. The key feature of any Dingell bill will be a mandatory cap-and-trade system modeled on Dingell's 1990 acid-rain legislation. Industries would be allowed to emit fixed amounts of greenhouse gases according to their share of the overall problem. If a power plant or factory reduces its emissions, the saving can be sold to plants that fail to adhere to the cap. In this way, reductions become valuable and pollution costly...
...rich Venezuela's left-wing President, Hugo Chavez, is the shock jock of international politics - as he demonstrated in the U.N. General Assembly last year, when he referred to President George W. Bush as "the devil." To complement his anti-U.S. tirades, he has created a new alternative Latin American television network, Telesur - and has left free-speech advocates wringing their hands as he prepares to revoke the license of one of Venezuela's largest and most outspoken opposition networks, RCTV...
...indebted to dozens of previous psychological thrillers, from Psycho and The Haunting (a tingly scene where Laura feels someone snuggle into her bed, thinks its Carlos, then is shocked to see him enter the room), from the Spanish Spirit of the Beehive to Del Toro's own The Devil's Backbone. And there are moments when plausibility takes a back seat to the need to make Laura stay one or two more nights in the condemned manor - when she does things because, well, because it's a scary movie. But there will be other moments so tense, you'll need...
Paul B. Davis ’07-’08, who contributed to a collection of student essays written in 2005 on the purpose and structure of a Harvard education, said that “the devil is in the details” when it comes to defining the new requirements, such as the degree to which departmental courses will count towards general education requirements...