Since the Second World War, the US dollar has been the world's sole international reserve currency, giving it, in the words of one critic, 'exorbitant privelege'. But in the wake of the worldwide financial crisis, will other currencies overtake it? & what impact would that have? Eichengreen explains the history & assesses what may come. ...

Shortly after the debut of " Exorcism" in 1920, the author suddenly cancelled production & ordered all extant copies of the drama destroyed. For over ninety years, it was believed that the play was irrevocably lost, until it was recently discovered. Revolving around a suicide attempt, this title draws on a dark incident in the author's own life. ...

Horror starring Laura Linney based on true events. In an extremely rare decision, the Catholic Church officially recognised the demonic possession of a 19 year old college freshman. The film chronicles the haunting trial of the priest accused of negligence resulting in the death of the young girl believed to be possessed. Linney plays the lawyer who takes on the task of defending the priest (Tom Wilkinson) who performed the controversial exorcism. ...

Horror starring Laura Linney based on true events. In an extremely rare decision, the Catholic Church officially recognised the demonic possession of a 19 year old college freshman. The film chronicles the haunting trial of the priest accused of negligence resulting in the death of the young girl believed to be possessed. Linney plays the lawyer who takes on the task of defending the priest (Tom Wilkinson) who performed the controversial exorcism. ...

Double-bill of horror. In ' The Exorcism of Emily Rose' (2005), based on 'true events', the Catholic Church, in an extremely rare decision, officially recognises the demonic possession of a 19-year old college freshman. The film chronicles the haunting trial of the priest accused of negligence resulting in the death of the young girl believed to be possessed. Laura Linney plays the lawyer Erin Bruner, who takes on the task of defending the priest, Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson), who originally performed the controversial exorcism. In ' The Relic' (1997), biologist Margo Green (Penelope Ann Miller) teams up with police Lieutenant D' Agosta (Tom Sizemore) to investigate a series of grisly murders at her place of work
- the Natural History Museum. Can there be a link with the recently-arrived crates belonging to a missing anthropologist from Brazil? All that is found in the crates are some leaves covered with a strange fungus which, when analysed, proves capable of mutating whoever eats it. When a guard is killed & a headless body interrupts the museum's exhibition gala, Margo & D' Agosta discover that there is an ancient killer monster on the loose.
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Actress Chris Mac Neil (Ellen Burstyn) has every reason to be content, having just completed a film with director Burke Dennings (Jack Mac Gowran). However, she becomes disturbed by the changes taking place in her 12-year-old daughter, Regan (Linda Blair). At first sullen & withdrawn, Regan becomes aggressive & blasphemous, & ugly welts appear on her face & body. No medical cure is forthcoming, & after Burke is killed by being thrown from Regan's window, Chris turns to local Jesuit priest Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller) for help. Karras then calls in exorcist Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow), who confirms that Regan is possessed by the devil. William Peter Blatty's screenplay, based on his own novel inspired by actual events, won an Oscar, & the film was deemed so powerful that it was refused a BBFC certificate for fifteen years. ...

All four films from the hugely popular ' Exorcist' series. In ' The Exorcist' (1973), actress Chris Mac Neil (Ellen Burstyn) has every reason to be content, having just completed a film with director Burke Dennings (Jack Mac Gowran). However, she becomes disturbed by the changes taking place in her 12-year-old daughter, Regan (Linda Blair). At first sullen & withdrawn, Regan becomes aggressive & blasphemous, & ugly welts appear on her face & body. No medical cure is forthcoming, & after Burke is killed by being thrown from Regan's window, Chris turns to local Jesuit priest Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller) for help. Karras then calls in exorcist Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow), who confirms that Regan is possessed by the devil. ' The Exorcist 2
- The Heretic' (1977) sees Regan (Blair), the demonically possessed child from the first film, now a relatively normal, happy teenager, living under the care of a psychiatrist (Louise Fletcher) & her mother's ex-secretary (Kitty Winn). When the demons return to haunt Regan, priest Father Lamont (Richard Burton), himself suffering a crisis of faith, is sent to investigate. ' The Exorcist 3' (1990) sees writer William Peter Blatty return to direct this 'first true sequel' to the original film, based on his own novel. Fifteen years have passed since Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller) died exorcising Regan Mac Neil. Now his best friend Lt. Kinderman (George C. Scott) is troubled by a series of mysterious murders which are strangely reminiscent of those committed by the Gemini killer
- who was executed on the night Karras died. Does the killer's spirit live on, & if so in whom? Kinderman's investigation leads him to an amnesiac in a mental hospital who has recently awoken from a fifteen-year coma, can describe the Gemini killings in detail, & bears an uncanny resemblance to Damien Karras. Finally, in ' Exorcist: The Beginning' (2004), Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård), his faith shattered by World War II, journeys to Kenya to join an archaeological dig that has uncovered a Byzantine church mysteriously untouched by the ravages of time. But an even greater mystery awaits: an ancient & horrific evil is now awakened & a soul-shattering death spree begins. Can Merrin summon the faith & courage to defeat humanity's oldest & most powerful foe?

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