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...alchemy of children's fiction, there is no more potent formula than magic and growing up. Witness Harry Potter's dual struggle with mundane hormones and unearthly incantations. A century ago, it was Peter Pan's flat declaration that "Every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead," that held childlike imaginations spellbound. As for growing up, Peter famously had neither the time nor the inclination. But whether he likes it or not, Peter is about to enter the 21st century, with the publication of Peter Pan in Scarlet...
...associate la dolce vita only with Rome to learn "we're Italian too. We have that same passion and joy for life." Yet though city fathers want the Olympics to show off Torino, most Italians, even the Piemontesi, focus their athletic attention on a certain sport played on flat fields. "In Italy, if it isn't called soccer, it's hard to get a lot of people interested," says Roberto Grissiotto, a Torino sales manager for an auto-safety manufacturer. This, added to a general Italian nonchalance, may help explain the lukewarm start to ticket sales: some...
...said that the creation of federal grants targeted to certain students represents a new and potentially troublesome direction in federal education funding, especially because funding for the Pell grants available to all eligible needy students has remained flat over the past few years...
...have to do a better job knowing where [Goffredo] is,” Brown coach Glen Miller said. “To start the game he didn’t get too many open looks, but then we lost track of him. He got hot. He flat out can shoot the ball.” All five of Goffredo’s long balls in the run were assisted, three of them by guard Drew Housman. After a rough night against Yale that had the rowdy Bulldogs’ student section continually taunting him, Housman responded with perhaps his best...
...improved in the next two games and started to take care of the ball and it showed. When we take care of the ball we can do all right.”Although the outlook was good for a Crimson victory, the team came out flat in the fifth game and Puerto Rico pulled out the victory.After Harvard believed it had won the first point of the game, the Tarzanes (21-5) made a diving save and block to shift the momentum in its direction.The Crimson gave up eight straight points to find itself with an insurmountable deficit.But Harvard would...