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Percy Jackson is no Harry Potter. He's American, dyslexic, and his best friend is half goat. On the other hand, he has unusual parents, he's supposed to decide the fate of the world, and there is a series of best-selling books based on his teen years. With the Feb. 12 release of the movie Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, he has a chance to notch up another similarity. Can Jackson conjure up anything close to Potterphilia...
...Wednesday that he was in fact the baby's daddy. "The matter is now between the two of us, and culturally, between the Zuma and Khoza families," he said, adding that he had made a payment of inhlawulo, a Zulu word for the compensation (traditionally a cow and goat) that a man gives a woman's family for impregnating her outside marriage. He also blasted the "harsh media exposure" on the child, saying it was "unfortunate" and "merely because of the position I occupy." "The media is in essence questioning the right of the child to exist and, fundamentally...
...premature release of the communiqué by German officials before the daylong conference even broke for a lunch of goat's cheese and sea bass underlined how little would be decided at the conference itself. And the document's boilerplate contents revealed the limits on what had been agreed in the detailed negotiations that preceded Thursday's summit. (See video of the war in Afghanistan up close...
...SUNDAY Catch Kyrgyzstan's national sport, ulak tartysh, at the hippodrome on the west side of town. Teams of riders vie to grab the corpse of a headless goat from the ground at full gallop and heave it into a vat. The big contests are held during the Nooruz Festival (March 21) and Kyrgyz Independence Day (Aug. 31), but smaller events take place at other times...
...opened his eyes really wide. As soon as I turned around he nudged me again and did the same thing, but this time he had smeared some goat’s blood around his neck. Out of all my friends, Mikey carried the largest number of vials filled with goat blood. His carrying satchel wasn’t the nicest one but it was up there.” Creepy...