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...you’re a victim of social engineering—a tactic used by the latest viruses to trick you into downloading an attachment. Socially-engineered viruses aren’t new, but their recent rise in sophistication is. Viruses like Sobig, Mydoom, Netsky and Bagle “spoof” (or fake) sender addresses, create believable e-mail texts and give their attachments harmless names, all in an effort to convince you to download and run their harmful payloads. Bagle.J, for instance, sent a message to Harvard students from what appeared to be “Harvard.edu...
...male suspect punched one victim in face, breaking his tooth, DeFrancesco said, and one of the females from the car punched another victim...
...felt had legitimate claim on humanity because of Adam's fall. But others preferred another scenario: to see the Crucifixion and Jesus' subsequent descent into what they called Hades as a kind of divine bait-and-switch scheme, whereby the devil thought he had claimed a particularly virtuous human victim only to discover he had allowed into his sanctum the power that would eventually wrest humanity back from his grasp. St. Augustine likened the devil to a mouse, the Cross to a mousetrap and Christ to the bait...
...violent she had ever screened. A colleague of hers said the film seemed to assume the theory of substitutionary atonement. "The problems with this classic Christian theology," he pointed out, are the "glorification of death and suffering, the encouragement of scapegoating and making forgiveness the [Christlike] burden of the victim...
...brilliant idea, for about 10 minutes. Then the bare set is elbowed out of a viewer's mind by the threadbare plot and characterizations. Into this town of ostensibly decent folk comes a fugitive named Grace (Kidman), a familiar Von Trier heroine-victim, like the ones played by Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves and Bjork in Dancer in the Dark. Grace is the beneficiary of the townspeople's Christian charity, then the victim of their envy, malice, lies and sadism. She stoically endures a spate of abuse nearly as long and relentless as Jesus' in the Mel Gibson gospel...