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...dangers such as climate change, the threat of viral pandemics and mass humanitarian crises. How much better, says Chanda, to have the geopolitical and economic grasp of the 16th century Portuguese trader and diplomat, Tomé Pires, as he gazed upon the spice markets of Malacca. "Whoever is lord of Malacca has his hand on the throat of Venice," Pires wrote. "[It is at] the end of monsoons and the beginning of others." An equally informed appreciation of our interconnected fates would better prepare us for the storms ahead...
...from British voters who saw Blair as more of a supplicant than a friend to the Bush administration. Even some within Brown's cabinet have telegraphed a cooling of relations. Britain and the U.S. would no longer be "joined at the hip" on foreign policy, new Foreign Office minister Lord Malloch-Brown said. And International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander, in what was read as a thinly veiled rebuke of the Bush Administration, denounced unilateralism and called for an "internationalist approach" to global challenges...
After over 3,000 pages worth of build-up, this is the book that finally delivers the ultimate showdown between Harry and his evil nemesis, Lord Voldemort. Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione are on the run from a hostile puppet government, on a secret mission to demolish the barriers Voldemort erected between himself and his demise. For most of the book, the three of them are utterly alone, cut off from friend and foe alike, and the solitude around them lets us see even greater nuance in their already delicately crafted relationships...
Grossman cites the lord of the rings author J.R.R. Tolkien and The Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis as Christian writers who suffused their work with religion. He then complains that Harry Potter has no one to pray to because Rowling has deleted God. Grossman ignores the Christian themes of love and free will that Rowling makes explicitly clear are Harry's only means of salvation...
...fact that Stardust is finally getting made says more about how Hollywood has changed than how Gaiman has. After The Lord of the Rings, Narnia and Harry Potter, not to mention 300, fantasy is a proven commodity. But the big studios may have a more difficult time domesticating Gaiman than they have with his colleagues. Stardust is tough to market--it's a category-breaking mix of comedy, romance, drama and action--and like many truly nerdy genre works, it's full of unhip, unironized emotion. "It's not like a comedy like Shrek that's making...