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...iced tea here with lunch. If next year they say iced tea is worse than steroids, I'll probably quit drinking that too. But at the time it was legal, just like drinking an iced tea is legal. The baseball players, the football players, the hockey players - everybody I knew in every professional sport was using it to up their game, or to heal injuries, or to stay at their peak. And everybody thought it was safe...
With this exhibition, fans might find that they discover something new about their favorite characters, as there seems to be even more material here than can be found in the books. For example, who knew that Remus Lupin collected gramophone records? Or that the company that makes pumpkin juice was among the sponsors of the Wizarding World Cup? The attention paid to the props themselves, from Hermione’s Time-Turner to a Golden Snitch, reveals the artistry that went into making every element of the movies...
...Eloise McCormack, the self-professed virtuoso cellist who coaches young Tibor on his technique, eventually confesses that she cannot play the cello. She justifies this by claiming that other, less-gifted teachers would have destroyed her innate gift if she had taken lessons with them: “I knew I had to protect my gift against people who, however well-intentioned they were, could completely destroy it.” Yet this confession diminishes her into a pathetic figure leading a stunted musical life because of her own absurd desire for protection...
...Senior. I have lived in Harvard Square for almost four years. Even idiots knew about Club Passim. What’s worse than an idiot? A moron, maybe. I guess I was a moron...
Sandler has been working for Dorm Crew—a branch of Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance Organization that employs students to clean in-suite bathrooms during the year—since February. He says he knew he would want a term-time job before starting college and chose Dorm Crew because of its high wages and had flexible hours...