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...word one wouldn't normally apply to a war film set on the Bosnia-Serbian border. And one could choke on the laughs that Tanovic evokes, at the co(s)mic absurdity of this or any war. But the novice director has devised a devious satire, in which everyone is splendidly misguided, from the ethnic enemies who wind up in the same trench to the French and British U.N. soldiers who try helplessly to impose peace on centuries of fratricide...
...family was talking, but not to one another. Rumors flew. "I told Park, 'It's over; I want out,'" says Henschel. At this point, they called in Bright. She interviewed each person before gathering them for a three-day smackdown at an El Paso hotel. There was yelling about devious motives; there were tears. There was plenty of salsa...
From the filthy, louse-ridden cells of Russia's overcrowded prisons has emerged a serial killer that is as devious as it is dangerous. Its name is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and it sallies forth on spumes of sputum each time an infected inmate coughs or sneezes. As many as 10% of Russia's million prisoners suffer active TB; in at least 1 case out of 5, the bacillus is a multidrug-resistant strain. Now M. tuberculosis in virulent forms is stalking ordinary citizens in Russian cities and towns, and soon, if it hasn't done so already, it will hitch...
Benjamin L. McKean '02 said he studied the intricacies of the report and found them unsettling and devious...
...even setting aside concerns over Lee's civil rights for a moment, it's worth questioning how Director Freeh's testimony will actually help the FBI. After all, if the senators and the wider public actually do buy into a portrait of Wen Ho Lee as a devious consort of a foreign power hungry for U.S. nuclear secrets, they're as likely to believe that by getting away only with time served on a single felony count he made the feds look silly...