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...pleasure of finding out on your own what those are.) It's pure pleasure to watch Rowling showing off her chops, managing the tension and throttling the pace up and down, and it's also a precious gift to the reader: we have plenty of time to bask in, and say goodbye to, the principals' three-sided chemistry, which sparkles in the deepening martial gloom. This is the saddest of the Harry Potter books, but it's also the funniest...
...it’s difficult to go through graduation without feeling the need to save the world from its mounting problems—global warming, conflict in the Middle East, et cetera. But before charging off full of hubris and missionary zeal, it seems appropriate to take stock and bask in mankind’s flourishing success: We live in an era of unprecedented human well-being...
Since it’s far too early in the semester to actually work, set aside your books and modern procrastination techniques (read: facebook.com) and return to our generation’s classic pastime: cartoons. Bask in nostalgia for Saturday mornings past by checking out the Brattle Theater’s Twelfth Annual Bugs Bunny Film Festival. It’s all there: carrots, Elmer Fudd, and one unbeatable bunny...
...cancer cells. Made abundantly clear is the camera's singular ability to both mirror life and morph it, expanding our perceptions in the process. As curator Crombie says, "photography is a slippery business. It kind of slips between truth and fiction." And "Light Sensitive" allows us to bask in its many deep, dark reflections...
...Italy: "The water in Greece is really clean ... and the company was very good." Meanwhile a bit farther north, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi had just wrapped up a notably more austere Mediterranean holiday in the Tuscan coastal town of Castiglione della Pescaia. Prodi could bask in several recent Italian successes on his beach break: a key role in the Lebanon cease-fire, and a merger of Sanpaolo IMI and Banca Intesa to give Italy its first major European banking player. But by the second week of September the sunny summer spirit was fading. Telecom's announcement that...