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When the book begins, Harry is living in a cupboard under the staircase in his aunt and uncle's house. His parents died when he was an infant, and his relatives treat him as a nuisance...
...have you enraptured too: look for a special interview with Jane Campion, director of The Piano and Holy Smoke, in January....Have you ever tried explaining instant replay to somebody who has never heard of it before? My cousin and I tried it the other day when our Indian aunt exclaimed during a football game, What? Whats going on? Didnt that just happen? We tried to explain it, but I realized how impossible it is. She ended the conversation once it started getting hostile: No, no. The same thing doesnt happen twice in India...
Surprisingly, though, at least sometimes it does happen. Even better, givebacks are becoming more common as states make it easier to search for unclaimed property--be it an overlooked utility deposit at your first apartment or stocks and bonds that Aunt Agnes neglected to declare in her will. Heirs in Florida discovered a forgotten cache of pre-breakup AT&T shares this year and collected...
...think stealing your Maude Frickert character for his Aunt Blabby will keep Johnny Carson from ever winning the award...
Yogi Berra, as usual, said it best: "Prediction is very hard, especially when it's about the future." Yet as we come to the end of the 20th century--a century that saw us split the atom, crack the genetic code and allow Aunt Martha to auction off her turquoise Fiesta ware online--it is only natural to ask what the 21st century will hold for us. We trust that the future will outmarvel the past, but all we can say for sure is that our lives will change more swiftly than ever. In the following pages we ask what...