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When J.K. Rowling said at Carnegie Hall that Albus Dumbledore--her Aslan, her Gandalf, her Yoda--was gay, the crowd apparently sat in silence for a few seconds and then burst into wild applause. I'm still sitting in silence. I feel a bit like I did when we learned too much about Mark Foley and Larry Craig: you are not the role model I'd hoped...
...mediator, retired General Joseph Ralston, recently quit in frustration. Bush's refusal to engage the Iranians has left a clear field for Russian mini-czar Vladimir Putin to move in and build an alliance. The Secretary of State is chasing an Israeli-Palestinian chimera at a moment when a burst of high-level U.S. diplomatic pressure might actually make a difference in Iraq. There are goats and hugs to be had, and we are not grabbing them...
...blocking off the main roads, the friends snuck in through "dirt roads and stuff like that," says Gudim. At one point, Samuels and his friends saw firefighters battling a fire that had snaked up and down one hill. They saw a eucalyptus tree a few hundred yards away suddenly burst into flame. "Wow, did you see that?" they said to each other...
...tear myself away. It wasn’t until the motion-activated lights in the stacks went off, leaving me reading about devil worship in a subterranean blackout that I panicked. Grabbing my belongings, I booked it up the stairs, too terrified to wait for the elevator. As I burst back onto the main floor, panting and sweating, I thanked God I was alive and not being forced to drink blood of small woodland creatures. I then spent the remainder of my afternoon reading this book cover-to-cover in the safe and well-lit periodicals room...
...Tigers quickly responded with a tally of their own, as senior Diana Matheson tapped junior Jen Om’s shot past Mann at 4:54. But in the 17th minute, freshman forward Katherine Sheeleigh took a perfectly placed through ball from junior midfielder Rachael Lau, used a burst of speed to beat her defender to the ball, and made a move around diving Princeton keeper Maren Dale. Sheeleigh’s easy touch into the open net gave Harvard the lead for good.A first-half offensive onslaught like Saturday’s was a breakthrough for a Crimson squad...