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...pennies, about the worth of a lamb. By the 17th century, however, the devil, unwelcome and omnipresent, had been doing his worst through the feline. In 1699, for instance, at the Swedish town of Mora, 300 children were accused of employing demon cats to steal butter, cheese and bacon. Fifteen of the children were killed, and every Sunday for a year, 36 were whipped before the church doors. By the mid-18th century, the cat was back in favor. Frederick the Great thought so highly of cats he made them official guards of his army's stores and ordered...
...focuses his fiercest and most striking images--images that draw power not so much from their unexpectedness as from the fear and loathing they convey. The LSD-scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...
...possible, this season will be even tighter. Fifteen of the 17 clubs have legitimate chances at playoff spots (the top two teams in each of the three divisions automatically qualify; the two with the next-best records round out the field...
...compromise, pork-barrel greed, and cowardice in the face of interest group pressure. As he neatly summed it up. Washington is a place where it doesn't make too much sense to "believe in the momentum theory...I believe in institutional inertia. Two months of response can't beat fifteen years of political infrastructure. I'm talking about K Street and all of the interest groups in this town, the community of interest groups. We sort of stunned it, but it just went underground for the winter. It will be back..."In short. The Education of David Stockman consisted...
...Fifteen minutes later, Duggan made the mistake of letting the frustration of the game, and perhaps the season, get to him. After being hounded by a Yale midfielder while trying to challenge for a ball, Duggan threw a right to the midsection of the Bulldog that earned the Harvard stopper a red card and an expulsion...