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...also enslaving and terrorizing the local Indian population. In the years following these revelations, until his death in 1916, Casement worked tirelessly to bring the man he considered responsible—the Peruvian rubber baron, Julio César Arana—to justice. In “The Devil and Mr. Casement,” British historian Jordan Goodman offers a dispassionate account of Casement’s struggle to expose and put an end to the atrocities wrought by Arana’s company in the Putumayo River Basin of northern Peru. But while Goodman?...
...thereafter, and drives the song to the album’s musical apex. Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval lends her voice to this particular track, and her airy recitation of the lyrics only adds to the disquieting mood of the song. “Oh well, the devil makes us sin,” she coos, “but we like it when we’re spinning in his grip.” At its conclusion, sweeping strings elevate the sinister tone of the song to a truly overwhelming effect...
Moya’s own work, of which “Senselessness,” “The She-Devil in the Mirror,” and most recently, “Dance with Snakes” have been translated from Spanish, is evidence of the author’s acute comprehension of society’s penchant for forcing what is foreign into a controllable compartment. “Dance with Snakes,” originally published in 1996 and now translated by Lee Paula Springer, is a four-part frenzy, a detailed depiction of the chaotic hell...
Then, a man dressed as Puff the Magic Dragon took the stage to accost Hathaway, who was instructed to slay the creature by a man playing Meryl Streep’s character in “The Devil Wears Prada...
...devil [of clawbacks] is in the details," Harvard's Bebchuck told the House panel on compensation. "Firms have not provided sufficient information for outsiders to be able to assess whether the adopted clawbacks are meaningful or merely cosmetic...