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...headmaster Albus Dumbledore looks after him and the school institution is on his side. Not to worry, though. It all changes in Book V, as Harry must fight an evil school bureaucracy—in the form of a new professor turned government-appointed “High Inquisitor of Hogwarts”-turned-headmistress...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, | Title: Harvard and Hogwarts | 6/27/2003 | See Source »

...people are on the club’s e-mail list (though only 17 attended the first meeting) and there are, according to the co-presidents, 30-40 officers. “I like to call my position ‘Grand Inquisitor of the Nature of All Beings,’” White says. “Vice President is such a boring title...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Olive, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: I LOVE NJ | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...known as Good Men who preach that the world was created by the devil and should be despised. The narrative, which is based on historical sources, unfolds from several points of view: those of an alcoholic widow, a lustful village priest, a cobbler struggling with his homosexuality, a conflicted Inquisitor. Craig has the gift of finding complexity in simple people, and she tells their stories in fluid, shapely prose that blends mysteries both religious and erotic with the scratchy, stinky realities of peasant life. She slips only rarely into the "But what troubles you, Father?" school of historical dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heretic Fringe | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...village priest struggle to reconcile his vocation with his lustful desires, complicated by his secret sympathy for the Good Men. We watch as a yearning for the priest grows in both Lizier and her mother, and see the resulting resentment. We witness the struggles of the Inquisitor as he tries to remain firm in his duty to flush out heresy, even in the midst of doubts that what he is doing is right...

Author: By Benjamin W. Olson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Medieval Pleasures of the Flesh | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...added, "we could speak about mistrust . Now it has turned into hatred." For Captain first-class Muhaedin Bela , who says he was singled out for suspicion only because he was the only Albanian commissioned officer at the strategically important air base outside Skopje, the words of his mysterious inquisitor weigh heavily. "All I can think of is what he said," Bela said this week from his cramped apartment in a crowded Albanian section of the capital. "If this war will not end at the negotiating table, then how will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Macedonia: Chronicle of a Tragedy Foretold | 6/22/2001 | See Source »

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