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...right that it's churlish to dwell on her minor missteps. (O.K., one more: Dobby still talks like Jar Jar Binks.) She has shed the clumsy devices--the impostors and the secret identities--that marred the shape of some of the earlier books. Her prose, always a serviceable, unshowy instrument, is stronger and more confident, and she has become a virtuoso plotter, a master at snappy pacing, able to stun and surprise at will...
According to bioarchaeologist Don Brothwell of the University of York, who participated in the project, the damage to the bodies of the young woman and the boy is too violent to be accidental. Someone hacked at the woman's face with a sharp instrument, and similar damage was done to the boy's chest--just what might be expected during a postmortem desecration of unpopular figures. (A cavity in the woman's chest was likely the incidental handiwork of later grave robbers.) "The damage to the mouth is appalling," says Fletcher. "It looks completely malicious...
...recent Tuesday afternoon Diana Dobrzynski, 5, was there shooting a few games with her brother Joshua, 12, and her grandmother, retired police officer Pat Hays, a pool teacher and a regular at Chris's. Unable to handle a large cue, the pint-sized Diana was using a more manageable instrument: her Barbie doll...
Though he still enjoys playing the piano, his primary instrument became the trumpet, which he played throughout college both independently and in the Bach Society Orchestra. At Harvard, he tapped into a small community of musicians, many of whom lived with him in Dunster House, known in the days before randomization as the hub of student musical talent...
...pond surrounded by pine and eucalyptus trees inside the presidential compound; peacocks and gazelles roamed the grounds. One party pad that neighbors call the China house was decorated entirely in chinoiserie, complete with murals of Chinese women doing the washing and playing the erhu, a two-string instrument. In the upscale Baghdad suburb of Karada, Uday kept a love nest for trysts...