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...assailant, and that of a ship, a 74-gun British warship intended for use against the Emperor Bonaparte's forces (it's 1808, if you're just tuning in) that was burned in the shipyard where it was being built. Jane is enlisted to investigate by her friend Lord Harold Trowbridge, who is both a highly placed government official and a sexy scoundrel of the first water...
...April.) On the job front, check out hiring firm Manpower manpower.com) whose quarterly surveys ask employers whether they're planning to expand or shrink their staff. (The June release reported the weakest quarter in 12 years.) Or you may decide that daily ignorance is bliss. Says financial adviser Harold Evensky of Coral Gables, Fla.: "Investors should stop thinking about economic news and start investing...
...Appreciation of a Good Yarn Re "Why Harry Potter Rules" [June 23]: Author J.K. Rowling has engaged millions of children (and apparently the child in millions of adults as well) to put down their joysticks and remote controls and once again read books. But ?litist snobs like Yale Professor Harold Bloom predict the Potter books will end up "in the dustbins everywhere." Bloom has obviously been ensconced in his academic ivory tower so long that he can't appreciate good, old-fashioned yarn spinning. Or is it possibly just a severe case of envy? Maybe he can't stand...
...afternoon in the early '70s, Katharine Hepburn and two friends entered a loge box in the London theater where Harold Pinter's Old Times was playing. Hepburn soon went prone on the floor of the box to get a closer view of the play--her chin in her cupped hands, her eyes rapt as a schoolgirl's on Christmas morning. That day the laser beam of Hepburn's gaze outshone the spotlights and, nearly, the actors onstage. Did people notice her? Oh, yes: Hepburn was the show, and she knew it. Not for nothing was her autobiography titled...
...series, even if their religion holds that magic is bad. Rowling writes about goodness triumphing over evil, and although many of the characters are clearly either good or bad, there are also witches and wizards in the gray area in between. Even if the Potter books, as Yale professor Harold Bloom predicted, end up "in the dustbins everywhere," readers worldwide, young and old, will remember them as fascinating, magical stories of bravery and love. MELISSA PAN Plano, Texas...