Word: slayer
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...Human sacrifice has always been an anomaly in India. Even 200 years ago, when a boy was killed every day at a Kali temple in Calcutta, blood cults were at odds with a benign Hindu spiritualism that celebrates abstinence and vegetarianism. But Kali is different. A ferocious slayer of evil in Hindu mythology, the goddess is said to have an insatiable appetite for blood. With the law on killing people more strictly enforced today, ersatz substitutes now stand in for humans when sacrifice is required. Most Kali temples have settled on large pumpkins to represent a human body; other followers...
...there were more surprisingly just nominations than egregious snubs - though we might as well admit that "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (which is wittier than "The West Wing," more suspenseful than "Law & Order" and more inventive than the slick "CSI") could cure cancer and not get a thank-you from Emmy. (It got a few minor nods for music, makeup and hairstyling...
These days the wiry 42-year-old A.G. is fast developing a national reputation as a giant slayer. He has led a highly visible campaign against bogus stock advice and is currently going after purveyors of Internet spam. With his knack for tapping into hot-button issues, the question now is not if but when he will run for Governor. "You in New York are so blessed to have an attorney general who just showed what it was like to be a Democrat," James Carville, Bill Clinton's old political guru, gushed in his keynote address to a party convention...
...series Smallville, in which a teenage Clark Kent (Tom Welling) discovers the powers that will someday make him the Man of Steel. He moons over an unrequited crush and battles villains who are really externalizations of teen emotions and self-discovery, as on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Part of the charm of Welling's Clark and Tobey Maguire's Peter, in fact, is that they have a little bit of the feminine in them: they've learned from Buffy and pop culture's other fatal femmes, who make fighting evil just another aspect of the really tough job of growing...
...Buffy the Vampire Slayer" 9-10 "Haunted...