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...know someone has to be the disciplinarian, it's just that we all prefer to take the cheerleader role. We've become a society of coddlers. Be it to children, employees, or students, we don't come down hard anymore. At least not in the flesh. But with a gadget in hand, we're merciless...
...inhabited places. Historian Geoffrey Blainey described men with gold lust traveling the final 1,000 km from Katherine. "The manager of Spring Vale reported that 'great numbers of men from Queensland have passed by, some of them very undesirable characters, who prefer picking their own beef and horse-flesh,'" he writes in The Rush That Never Ended. "They faked the brands on their stolen horses with any piece of iron they could find, and at Kimberley one could see horses from nearly every pastoral run in Northern Australia...
...nose buried in a screen of some kind. But that doesn't seem quite right. Harry Potter appeals to plenty of children - and adults - who love reading books of all kinds. The stories have that crucial ability to be fantastic and believable at the same time, the characters are flesh and blood, and the plotting rich and unexpected. Rowling deserves her fame and wealth...
...What I hadn't appreciated before was how much a heroine she is to her readers; Gina, a devoted Potter fan, had been had counting the days to the reading, and it was plainly the chance to see Rowling in the flesh that had attracted her to the event. I don't think I ever felt that way about Arthur Ransome, the wonderful British children's author of the 1930s and 1940s whose books I once devoured with the same passion Gina now displays. But then, the whole way in which one consumes and appreciates children's literature has changed...
...Bombay hospital bed, drifting in and out of consciousness, Tejas Pathak looked up and beheld India's turbaned Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, who had tears in his eyes as he saw what the explosives had done to human flesh all around the room. "Get well soon," Singh told him. "God bless you." The 29-year-old stockbroker, badly wounded in the head and face, reportedly responded by congratulating Singh on his economic reforms...