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Saturday, Dec. 7, was national Students' Day in Iran, so Farnaz Shirazi - a middle-aged, middle-class housewife with two sons and a husband who drives a taxi - attended a demonstration outside Tehran University. But instead of listening to impassioned speeches, she found herself running down an alley, trying to get away from police clearing the street with truncheons. "We don't have free speech and we don't have freedom," Shirazi (not her real name) said after stopping to catch her breath. "I have come here to support the students for my children's future." Since early November, students...
...Wasserstein, editor: I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve myself. Turns out there’s something called a...hang on, I wrote it down here somewhere...a doubles alley, on the sides of the court. It seems that if we’re playing doubles, It’s totally kosher to throw the ball there. Ol’ Lar’ won’t see that coming...
...world haven't changed. The original cast is intact, including grownups Maggie Smith as Professor McGonagall, Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid and Richard Harris - who died last week - as Dumbledore. Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) and his nasty pals are still hatching nefarious plots. Production designer Stuart Craig's Diagon Alley - a teetering jumble of Tudor and Georgian magic shops - is still standing. Hogwarts Castle's mile-high central staircase continues to twist and turn according to its own whims. Columbus has included all of the book's greatest moments: Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint, 14, in whose voice you can hear...
...hunters--has taken position in the natural habitat of contemporary Americans. And incredibly, each time, despite busy, well-lighted streets, no one noticed the shooter. As it turns out, the suburbs, with a camouflage of hedgerows, neon signs and anonymous traffic, make a better shooting gallery than a dark alley...
...hear about [Bill]? the blonde asked, bending into the table and whispering. He just waited in a dark alley and stopped the first person who came—and guess how much money he was carrying...