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...been trying to kill Harry since he was born, has gained a host of new advantages, including a new posse (a pack of “dementors”: creatures who suck souls out of the living, have abandoned their jobs as prison guards, and now roll on the dark side). And, as always, Voldemort has that most critical asset: wicked smart magic skills...
Harry spends a good portion of this book thus immersed, as Rowling steers the story into a piecemeal biography of Lord Voldemort, building vignettes from the dark lord’s youth as a wizard named Tom Riddle...
...American moneymen continue their advance through Europe, the grumbling seems sure to continue. Jrgen Peters, head of Germany's metalworkers' union, for one, says his union, with its criticism of the big U.S. groups, simply "brought to light what others obviously wanted to leave in the dark"--and has every intention of shining more lights on the phenomenon. It's not just labor that is complaining. Blackstone made such a big return--more than $3 billion--from its investment in German chemical fiber company Celanese, which it acquired and quickly took public again in the U.S., that...
...Handouts in the Dark "The North's Bitter Harvest," on how North Korea is on the brink of famine [June 20], addressed a controversial issue. Should other countries provide North Korea with humanitarian aid when it refuses to relinquish its nuclear arsenal? The answer should be no. We do not know if donated food really goes to the poor and needy. How can one expect to resolve a crisis without being certain of the facts? We should decide to provide aid only if we know for certain the hungry will receive the food. Jennifer Bo-yu Chen Bangkok
...abiding preoccupation here, it's love: both requited and un-, misplaced, perverted, denied, repressed and obsessive. Rowling plays that theme as both comedy--watch for the long-suffering Ron to get dosed with a love potion--and tragedy. The story of Voldemort's early life plays as a dark parody of Harry's--Voldemort too was a Muggle-raised orphan, desperate to feel special--but while Harry's power comes from his mother's true, pure love, Voldemort is the product of a twisted, sorcerously coerced love, from which only evil could arise...