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True Potter fans have crushes on one or two of the minor characters. It’s not acceptable to just have a crush on Harry. Everyone loves Harry. No, to be hardcore you have to get more intimate with the characters. A friend of mine idolizes Lee Jordan, the rarely-mentioned Quidditch announcer, while I prefer the scraggly Professor Lupin, despite his tendency to turn into a wolf at inopportune moments...
...Commencement was great. There was only one minor complaint about the disruption and delays from security,” Riley says. “I don’t know if we averted anything but any potential that was there obviously didn’t happen...
...affair, like a Norman Rockwell painting without quite enough people to fill the frame. It is sparsely attended—my coastal town’s population shrinks drastically in the off-season—and as the high school band director eschews John Philip Sousa unfestive music in minor keys ricochets between the shuttered storefronts. There seem to be fewer veterans every year. Their absence is poorly disguised by the addition of more boy scouts. Bystanders shift from foot to foot, filling the gaps between cub scout dens with small talk—“Isn?...
...divided on Bush’s massive tax cut; a quarter of Senate Democrats voted in favor of the ill-conceived plan. Instead of disagreeing outright with Bush’s idea of a Department of Homeland Security, the Democrats let the plan languish while they bickered about a minor labor dispute. Republicans have adopted the idea of subsidized prescription drugs, leaving the Democrats with no proposals that match the sweeping innovation of Bill Clinton’s 1992 proposal to extend health care to all people who are uninsured...
...board members hinted that they would make only minor aesthetic and content changes to the College’s weekly newspaper...