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...LINES "It's like swapping Pokémon cards on the playground and earning a bonus when you have printed your own." Rupert Walker, former fund manager at Govett Investments, on the "split-capital investment trusts" now being investigated by Britain's Financial Services Authority "We think he is Lord of our transportation choices as well as all our other choices." Jim Ball, director of the Evangelical Environmental Network, on their WWJD ("What Would Jesus Drive?") campaign against sport-utility vehicles
...According to local lore, the giant snake?which was forbidden from entering the monkhood by the Lord Buddha because it wasn't human?has roamed a subterranean universe known as the Muang Badan for thousands of years, slithering through a vast network of caves and tunnels. The main thoroughfare?the Naga superhighway, if you like?is said to run from Kam Chanode in Udon Thani province to Wat Paa Ahong, a temple on the riverbank more than 100 kilometers away in neighboring Nong Khai. Pilgrims, I was told, visit Kam Chanode to anoint themselves with water from the Naga...
...first installment, The Sorcerer’s Stone was translated to film, it was decidedly not aimed at magic folk. Director Chris Columbus was charged with the onerous responsibility of introducing Rowling’s magical world and weaving in a plot involving the return of the evil Lord Volemort. In cramming in both necessary elements, the film felt like an animated stick figure, a conglomeration of bare bones allusions to the novel’s major dramatic moments that did not satisfactorily flesh out details. The production design, while otherwise superb, nearly crumbled under the weight of tacky, poorly...
...first installment, The Sorcerer’s Stone was translated to film, it was decidedly not aimed at magic folk. Director Chris Columbus was charged with the onerous responsibility of introducing Rowling’s magical world and weaving in a plot involving the return of the evil Lord Volemort. In cramming in both necessary elements, the film felt like an animated stick figure, a conglomeration of bare bones allusions to the novel’s major dramatic moments that did not satisfactorily flesh out details. The production design, while otherwise superb, nearly crumbled under the weight of tacky, poorly...
...DIED. LORD HASLAM, 79, working class mining engineer who rose to the top of his profession as chairman of state-run monoliths British Coal and British Steel; in Virginia Water, England. Admired by miners for his self-deprecatory manner, Haslam was made a life peer...