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...what exactly makes these novels so wildly successful? Is it Rowling’s charismatic characters with whom everyone can relate? Her witty, brisk dialogue? Her tongue-in-cheek humor? Her vivid descriptions? Her fantastical names and whimsical jargon? Or, more likely, have kids simply exhausted the worlds of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia Chronicles and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Ring Fellowship and even that staple of childhood fantasy, Roald Dahl, welcoming J.K. Rowling’s more approachable—and more marketable—Hogwarts...
Despite cool cover art and a lightweight-but-cute name, Elf Power are quite painfully bad. “Embrace the Crimson Tide” is a pretty dodgy song title to start the album with. It might work if it were tongue-in-cheek, or alternatively the work of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but these boys-and-a-girl have neither the humor nor the sex appeal to carry it off. And then it only gets worse. “The Great Society” sounds like Pink Floyd if you stole their sense of irony, humor, musicianship...
...ringing for Matt D. Boyd ‘02 and Sarah. G. Niccol ‘02. Boyd explains that he’s looking forward to purchasing the couple’s first apartment. Niccol, repressing her dream of owning a house, grinned, kissed her beau on the cheek, and tried not to think about how the rest of her life would be spent with a guy with big ears...
Reality struck one morning when Gagnon woke with small, red, swollen spots on his finger, cheek and shoulder. It was only after a bit of thinking that he associated the spots with the bat and high-tailed it to UHS. “They told me they weren’t bat bites, but that I could get rabies from even sleeping in the same room as the bat,” says Gagnon. He is now getting rabies shots which he describes...
...eagerly as Muslims—just ask Pope Urban and his Crusaders. But going back to the beginning of Islam, one finds Muhammed himself—the model Muslim, against whose standard all the faithful must be judged. And where Christianity has a Christ who turns the other cheek and gives himself over to be crucified, Islam has a Prophet who makes war—in self-defense, arguably, but with a glad heart, a warlike spirit and a knowledge that Allah is on his side. It is that example, that spirit of war, that flung the early Islamic empires...