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...Harry Potter author is on her way to becoming a club of one as this world's first billionaire author. While the otherworldly book series has been a pretty little earner for the British scribe - 100 million copies sold worldwide - the celluloid version has Harry's Nimbus 2000 broom and other merchandise flying off the shelves...
MEDFORD, Mass.—Sporting handmade T-shirts and waving union flags from the end of a broom, about 100 Tufts students, custodians and union representatives gathered yesterday afternoon to protest that university’s labor policies—joined by about 15 members of Harvard’s Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM...
...Potter series. Directors Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which opens Nov. 16) and Peter Jackson (The Fellowship of the Ring, due Dec. 19) have been on a sacred, scary quest. Each director must feel like a kid or a Hobbit who's been given a broom or ring with odd powers and told to go save the world. So it's nice to see that early indications give hope to match the hype. Snippets of the Tolkien film enthralled viewers at Cannes this May. And the Potter trailer is a smash. Hogwarts looks like a wizard...
...faces in August 1991, when the Soviet leadership's old guard made a last, despairing attempt to turn back time by seizing power in the name of the State Committee on the State of Emergency. That news found me in Vermont, on vacation. After a night spent in a broom cupboard, site of the only phone in our rented house, I drove through a wild storm to board a flight back to Moscow. On a nearly empty Lufthansa flight out of Frankfurt I met up with a number of colleagues, somewhat apprehensive and very crestfallen, who had shared the Gorbachev...
...Boris pulled me into the broom cupboard ... I felt like Cinderella in a beautiful dream. Boris was like a radiant German knight." ?ANGELA ERMAKOVA