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...better or for worse, an artist gives the people exactly what they want. Philip Pullman's brief, exquisite novel ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE NORTH (Knopf; 104 pages) is fan service at its best. North is set in the same quasi-Victorian alternative universe as Pullman's Golden Compass, where every human is accompanied by a talking-animal soul mate called a daemon. It's a prequel, the story of how a young and not-yet-grizzled Lee Scoresby, gunslinging aeronaut extraordinaire, and his rabbit daemon, Hester, first met up with armored polar bear Iorek Byrnison. Nobody writes dialogue...
...home," says the former Piedmont Airlines pilot. "We were bringing people home in the cockpit and in the back of the cabin." After 23 years of flying mainline American carriers, Murray, 54, says he became "tired of watching senior management march through the airline and leave with huge golden parachutes...
What happened before The Golden Compass Books, page...
...Entourage”). It is of note, then, that neither “Californication” nor “Weeds” is written in one of these veins—and that each is still finding success. 2006 found Mary-Louise Parker awarded with a Golden Globe for her funny, tender portrayal of a widowed mother driven to a life of Ziploc bags and gram scales in order to maintain her upper-middle-class status on “Weeds.” Her show has fast become Showtime’s most-watched comedy, according to Nielsen...
...into the Tournament. Ironically, the absence of Clarkson from the ECAC Final Four may have hurt Harvard more than it helped. Though the Crimson must have been happy to avoid facing a team that ended its season last year and swept the season series 2-0 this year, the Golden Knights squeezed the NCAA bubble by claiming an at-large berth after tumbling from the ECAC playoffs. On March 22, however, there was one man responsible for Harvard’s fate: Princeton goaltender Zane Kalemba. The netminder finished with 34 saves and was named the tournament?...