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Most religions acknowledge that humans can be possessed by what exorcism chronicler Malachi Martin called "personal and intelligent evil," and most prescribe measures to win back the victim. Jesus cast out demons on six occasions; a transdenominational echo of the rite is found in Christian godparents' promise that their godchild will renounce the devil and all his works and ways. For centuries every Roman Catholic priest's ordination included an explicit induction into the Order of the Exorcist...
Most juries feel pressured to give the death penalty so they do not show disrespect to the victim, she said...
...surely no team deserved as much calamity as befell Boston this year. The first casualty of outrageous fortune came before the season even started, as promising righthanded starter Juan Pena went down with a season-ending arm injury in spring training. Third baseman John Valentin was Boston's next victim, as a freak play in the infield disabled him for the year...
...Brown game is of special note. Harvard had a legitimate opportunity to win its Ivy opener and stun the Bears but fell victim to, among other things, a Crimson deflection that wound up as a Brown goal and several missed scoring chances...
...Indian subcontinent. Pigeonholed into a single-issue agenda, Americans are left with a portrait of the country that is both inaccurate and ill-informed. To most Americans, India is a nation embroiled in a nuclear arms race with Pakistan and an ethnic battle over the state of Kashmir. The victim of news analyses too watered down and politicized to be of any real informational use, the depth and complexity of the country's social, political and economic condition are lost to the American public at large...