Word: witch
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...University still refuses to release the names of the students, making it difficult to grant them diplomas. But this position ignores the crucial issue—that the students in 1920 had done no wrong and that they were victims of a witch-hunt. By not revealing the students’ names, the University implies that they were accused of some legitimate transgression; nothing could be further from the truth...
...Peter Richards came as a guest to my poetry class, and we asked him what he thought defined good poetry. He said that for him it was a feeling of transport, “like you felt when you were a kid and you first opened The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe...
...Eternal Evil of Asia,? from Chin Man-kei (whose credits include the lesbian-witch romp ?Sex and Zen II? and ?The Fruit Is Swelling,? a twisting of ?Big? into the against-all-odds-charming pedophile fable of an eight-year-old girl with a ripe 18-year-old body), Tsui Kam-kong, the Bluto of Hong Kong sex movies, is turned into a literal dick-head. (Circumcised, since you asked.) Another man falls under a hunger spell while at a restaurant. He eats all his Mediterranean noodles, then the fingers of one customer and the face of another. Finally...
...group of students in Dunster House will be making a daytime trip to Salem, Mass., home of the famous witch trials...
...book, The Deviant's Advantage: How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, the duo explain how "positive" deviance "is the backbeat of commerce, the rhythm of innovation that drives wealth creation and defines attitudes and values." It's often the "oddball" ideas--from sticky Post-it notes to the Blair Witch Project (a film which cost $60,000 to make, and grossed $240 million)--that make fortunes for enterprising companies. The resulting product or service must of course be polished and marketed. But the path that most successful new products take is predictable: "from the Fringe, to the Edge...