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...more than she does about the things that matter. Kids like the characters she has created, Harry above all, not because he is fantastic but because he is familiar. Rowling, they say, gets everything right, writes as though she knows what it is to be 13 years old and anxious or shocked at discovering what you can actually do if you try. Maybe she finds her way straight into the hearts of children because she never left in the first place...
...media muzzling comes as a nasty shock to Chinese publications, which were being granted greater latitude by leaders anxious to atone for having concealed the extent of the SARS crisis. In recent weeks, newspapers have called for more oversight of political leaders and exposed the case of a young graphic designer beaten to death in police custody. But the Beijing New Times, apparently stepped over the line with a commentary called "China's Seven Disgusting Things," which accused the National People's Congress of being undemocratic and asked, "who elected these delegates...
...Students’ worldview is a little more anxious and serious about how the hell do I fit into this,” adds her husband...
...then, local and state politicians say they are particularly anxious to know what Harvard is planning for the broad swaths of Boston the University now owns...
...overseas has been similarly muted. So far, protests from abroad have been pro forma or nonexistent or, in the case of Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer, who wholeheartedly threw his support behind the Aceh campaign only days after the Peusangan massacre, bordering on cold hearted. The U.S. is too anxious to maintain good relations with its war-on-terror allies to do anything but urge the T.N.I. to make its soldiers' actions more transparent, a plea the T.N.I. notes and then ignores-as the U.S. allows it to do. If anything does disrupt U.S.-Indonesia relations, it will...