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...just as older kids savor the Harry Potter books, so too may they enjoy the fantasy worlds conjured in Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke, and Eragon, by wunderkind Christopher Paolini. Inkheart is the suspenseful, darkly comic story of 12-year-old Meggie, who discovers the perils of fictional characters' coming to life. Eragon, by Paolini, who is only 19, is a fast-paced adventure tale that takes place in a fully realized alternate universe inhabited by a stew of dragons, swords and dark forces. By next year, you'll no doubt be able to supplement the literary gifts with Eragon action...
...Shrestha is particularly troubled by the deaths of Dutch tourists Henricus Bintanja and Cornelia Hemker whose burned corpses were found in Thailand a few days after the Kathmandu killings. Shrestha remembers the names well: when he interrogated Sobhraj and LeClerc in Nepal, they passed themselves off as Bintanja and Hemker, presenting him the two dead tourists' passports in which the pictures had been altered...
...Cornelia Dean, science editor of The New York Times, hopes to examine how the media reports on scientific information...
...police to denounce colleagues.) His 1969 painting of Lenin, Hommage à Lenin, reflects the shift: it is a bombastic explosion of color, celebrating Lenin at a time when the Soviet Union was despised by the people of Eastern Europe. By the 1980s, the end of the regime was nearing. Cornelia Schleime, a former singer in a Dresden punk band and painter, was forced to leave East Germany in 1984. All of her early work was lost when she left, but her Gelber Horizont (Yellow Horizon) is part of the exhibit. She is nevertheless disappointed in the show. "Everything started...
...reason we are in this is we realized we were angry over the experience we had at Harvard over 35 years ago,” CEWH member Cornelia Dimmitt ’58 says. “Undergraduate women have no idea it hasn’t changed as much as they think...