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...pronounces with a silent t). In the past few books, Voldemort has managed to assemble a body, but he still lacks any kind of realistic motivation. You get no sense of where his boundless enthusiasm for being evil comes from. "You will," Rowling says. "There is obviously a big gap there, and in six Harry finds out a lot of Voldemort's history. Though he was never that nice a guy." She laughs...
Fortescue’s desserts have heretofore appeared only in Diagon Alley, a London locale that offers more enticing—if fictional—retail alternatives to the Square’s pedestrian Gap and CVS. It will finally be conjured into real-world cones, though, thanks to Toscanini’s (where else?)—part of a Square-wide effort to help bring Hogwarts to Harvard...
...glimpse of the wealth gap, travel 400 km from prosperous Tokyo to the Shimane prefecture town of Ohda, a listless burg struggling to support its aging population of 33,000. Along an incongruously wide, modern superhighway linking Ohda with the nearest train station, the only signs of economic activity are abandoned construction sites. Shimane is one of the poorest and least populated regions in Japan and has no industry to speak of save public-works projects; one out of eight residents is tied to the construction industry. But because of fiscal austerity measures implemented by the Shimane prefectural government, even...
...Japan for Asian hegemony, and there's plenty of cause for national concern. Roppongi Hills may be ready for the future, but Ijiri and the kids hanging out in the Job Cafe Osaka are not. Sociology professor Yamada says the real problem crippling Japan is not the wealth gap between rich and poor but the "hope disparity"?a widening gulf between those who see a brighter future ahead and those who do not. In Osaka, Ijiri can relate. His father's generation, he says, believed that tomorrow will be better than today. Ijiri's judgment: "I don't know...
...glance, that might seem fairly simple. Unlike Hispanics and other Asian minorities, South Asians often arrive fluent in English. The influence may be more British than it is American--cricket is preferred to baseball--but a desi in the U.S. can still pick up USA Today and understand a Gap...