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...study. The Weasleys, Ron's family, are still poor--and any world in which a family as hardworking, loving and generous as theirs still struggles to put food on the table is, well, a lot like our own. Mrs. Weasley can cast a spell to make dirty dishes clean themselves, but she can't create new kitchenware out of thin air. Rowling has created a world in which a boy can fly on a broom, talk to snakes and grow gills like a fish, but he can no more easily cope with his crushing sadness about his dead parents than...
...those who disagree do more than defend the books as just good clean fun. They praise them as powerful moral tools. The Catholic News Service, run by the American bishops, puts the books on its recommended list for children. Ministers preach sermons likening Harry's running through the wall of Platform 934 to a leap of faith. "We're missing something if we can't tell stories from the Bible as compelling as Harry Potter," says John Fleming, minister of First United Methodist in Henrietta, Texas. Many have found embedded in the books all kinds of biblical imagery...
...jail for his part in the 1953 uprising, also feels let down by what happened after the Wall fell. "I hated the East German system, but I am not really happy with the way things turned out after 1989," Firl says. "Back then at least the streets were clean, we took care of each other, and you didn't have to be afraid to go out at night...
...being replaced. Frogard Timappel, a history teacher and an official of Berlin's teachers' union, says the cuts "are much too much." Next September, parents will be expected to contribute €100 for each child toward the purchase of school books. In some schools, students are being asked to clean the classrooms themselves. Teachers have been told they have to work two hours a week more than the 26 hours of instruction they performed earlier. The problems extend to higher education. Heike Gundermann, spokeswoman for Humboldt University, Berlin's oldest, says the cutbacks may mean the elimination of 500 professorial...
...Truth, Big Brother is watching, some are more equal than others? Fifty-three years after Orwell's death, his books have sold more than 40 million copies in 60 languages, and a million new readers discover him every year. His reputation as a champion of freedom, decency and clean prose has long outlived his era. The term Orwellian has become synonymous with the horrors of totalitarianism. Yet many of those students haven't a clue who Orwell really was. Oh, they may know that his name was actually Eric Blair, or that he was English and died pathetically young...