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This movie has enough wirework and furious swordplay to raise an audience's collective gasp of amazement. Knives, swords and spears move like fatal Frisbees, careering toward their targets with the help of some supple computer trickery. The narrative is no less devious: every loyalty, emotional and political, must be questioned, tested, fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Fine China, Kung Fu Style | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...General Assembly. The first tally sustained funding for "Messianic Jewish" congregations like Avodat Yisrael, a Philadelphia-area Presbyterian gathering that meets Saturdays and gives every appearance of being a synagogue but features New Testament readings. Most Jews consider such entities, often funded by conservative Christian groups, to be a devious way of luring new converts to Christianity. The second vote initiated the church's "phased selective divestment" from some corporations operating in Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interfaith Friendship Frayed | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...appeal was evident early this month on a campaign stop in Eastbourne, on England's south coast, when he propelled himself out of a minivan to press the flesh. Though once famously skewered by another Tory minister for having "something of the night" about him - an allegedly dark and devious side - Howard, 62, appeared invigorated by sunny retail politics, chatting with local councillors and police, and grabbing passersby to ask, "Are you going to vote Conservative?" In this crowd, mostly elderly and white, the answer was usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Beat Blair? | 6/13/2004 | See Source »

...These devious corporate criminals have certainly lost professional credibility, but we know little—and seem to care little—about the actual people behind the actions. While these perpetrators have all successfully avoided a personality analysis, the vast majority of the public criticism against our domestic diva has been about nothing but her personality...

Author: By Lia C. Larson, SKIRTING CONVENTION | Title: Martha Stewart's Recipe for Failure | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

...These devious corporate criminals have certainly lost professional credibility, but we know little—and seem to care little—about the actual people behind the actions. While these perpetrators have all successfully avoided a personality analysis, the vast majority of the public criticism against our domestic diva has been about nothing but her personality...

Author: By Lia Carson, SKIRTING CONVENTION | Title: Martha Stewart's Recipe for Failure | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

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