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Since her characters grow a year older in each book, Rowling says that certain unavoidable changes are in store for them and the readers. A hint of what's ahead appears in The Prisoner of Azkaban, when Harry notices Cho Chang, the only girl on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. "She was shorter than Harry by about a head, and Harry couldn't help noticing, nervous as he was, that she was extremely pretty. She smiled at Harry as the teams faced each other behind their captains, and he felt a slight lurch in the region of his stomach that...
...underrepresented. "Networks have realized they can't stereotype us, but instead they ignore us," says Lisa Navarrete, spokeswoman for the Hispanic advocacy group the National Council of La Raza. And the networks' few efforts at Hispanic- or Asian-themed programs (see, or better yet don't, the misused Margaret Cho in All-American Girl) have been feeble and short-lived, feeding the belief that they're untenable. Norman Lear produced ABC's AKA Pablo in 1984, but says "the interest simply hasn't been there" for a Latino program since. Even the networks' critics largely blame not blind Klansmanship...
...Margaret Cho: I've never been stopped by the police, but one time my Japanese friend and I were stopped by a group of kids who yelled, "Chinos ruin everything!" We weren't angry because we weren't sure whether they were talking about us or the pants. See, they could have been really racist or just fashion conscious...
Although North Korea is continuing to conduct underground military operations and missile tests, Cho pointed to the recent opening of North Korean borders to tourists as reason to hope for increased communication between the countries...
...most important change is the arrangement of tourism to the Kumgang Mountain...The visitors sang together with North Korean tour guides," Cho said. "No one could have imagined such a thing even one year...