Judge Jed Rakoff is a cheeky devil as well as a handsome one.

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So how can you overcome this nasty little devil of a roadblock and avoid becoming one of those depressing statistics on failure rates of startup businesses?

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Likewise, assigning at least one group member to be a devil's advocate can have a positive effect.

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Most of, you know, the first one was a likeness of the devil, the way he appeared in the studio.

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The Tasmanian devil is a little marsupial carnivore and they have a tendency to bite one another in the face.

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