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...Good Yarn Re "Why Harry Potter Rules" [June 23]: Author J.K. Rowling has engaged millions of children (and apparently the child in millions of adults as well) to put down their joysticks and remote controls and once again read books. But ?litist snobs like Yale Professor Harold Bloom predict the Potter books will end up "in the dustbins everywhere." Bloom has obviously been ensconced in his academic ivory tower so long that he can't appreciate good, old-fashioned yarn spinning. Or is it possibly just a severe case of envy? Maybe he can't stand the thought that...
...island where Jack has landed, the Governor (Jonathan Pryce) wishes his spirited daughter Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) to marry the local commodore (Jack Davenport). She has eyes for her childhood friend Will Turner (Orlando Bloom). But the island is attacked by pirates more fearsome than the larcenous Jack. The notorious Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) kidnaps Elizabeth to help break a curse on his ship, the Black Pearl. So Jack and Will forge a wary alliance. One wants the ship; the other wants the girl...
...even if their religion holds that magic is bad. Rowling writes about goodness triumphing over evil, and although many of the characters are clearly either good or bad, there are also witches and wizards in the gray area in between. Even if the Potter books, as Yale professor Harold Bloom predicted, end up "in the dustbins everywhere," readers worldwide, young and old, will remember them as fascinating, magical stories of bravery and love. MELISSA PAN Plano, Texas...
Contrary to what faultfinders like Bloom believe, Rowling possesses the one trait that all great writers share: the ability to make the reader want to turn the page. While I've always admired Rowling as a writer, when I read of her emailing Catie Hoch and reading the fourth book aloud to her on the phone, my respect for Rowling as a person increased enormously. Please, Ms. Rowling, ignore the critics! Your understanding of the human condition clearly surpasses theirs. ELAINE PAPPAS-PUCKETT Laguna Niguel, Calif...
...Until Azaleas Bloom (1996) By: Shin Young Hee, a dancer who performed at Kim's parties Dirt: Kim stages drinking contests, sometimes involving beer spiked with urine. Winners sometimes receive a car or a piano...