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...Bookstore held its first Harry Potter release party that summer, in response to demand for the books from people of all ages. Amanda Darling, the store’s marketing manager, said that she has seen a community of readers develop around the series, which strikes a basic human chord in readers...
...elbows, Abdi digs out a police report that describes how on June 6 last year, six men stormed a Somali grocery store where Abdi and his elder brother Mohammed worked. One shot Mohammed in the forehead, killing him. When Abdi ran, another shot him in the spinal chord, paralyzing him from the chest down. Abdi says the killers wanted him to know why. They told him he was stealing South African land, taking South African money. They called him "kuwara" - nigger. "But they were black," says Abdi. "They were African, like...
...opener, Don't Make Me a Target, is a duel between an optimistic piano and a guitar strummed with such tension that each chord cuts like a serrated tooth on a very long knife. It yields to the euphoric You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb, which like a lot of Daniel songs--he's the chief melody writer, guitarist and lyricist--is about a breakup. But rather than get pinned down by regret ("We lost it long ago, you and me"), Daniel's vocal diverts a few abstract lines in the chorus ("Blow out that cherry bomb...
...organizers of Hong Kong's annual July 1 pro-democracy march had hoped to strike the right sartorial chord by asking that demonstrators wear white - a symbol, they suggested, of the purity of the city's democratic hopes. It would have made a demonstrative change from the ubiquitous red Hong Kong and Chinese flags as the city marked - with parties, fireworks and a visit from Chinese Premier Hu Jintao - the tenth anniversary of the territory's return to China...
...political feuds over the direction of the national Republican Party today may strike a familiar chord with returning members of the Class...