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...YORK CITY—What might have been the country’s biggest Harry Potter party last Friday night was only a couple miles away from me in Times Square. I didn’t go. But I did pick up Order of the Phoenix Saturday afternoon, from a Barnes and Noble salesperson still sporting a black witches’ hat. And I’m betting lots of my classmates were among the five million people who purchased their copies on Saturday...
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix...
Obliged to do some publicity for Order of the Phoenix, she plans to appear before 4,000 children in London on June 26, to answer their questions and read from the book. The event is scheduled to be webcast around the world. Then Rowling will retreat from the spotlight to write book No. 6 and care for her family. She hopes to be remembered "as someone who did the best she could with the talent she was given. And I wouldn't mind being remembered as a good parent," she says. "But we won't know whether I've achieved...
...subsidiary of Viad, based in Phoenix, MoneyGram has more than doubled its global agent base, from 25,000 to 60,000, within the past three years. MoneyGram also scored a few big wins last year, including deals to place its outlets in Wal-Mart stores and Canada Post offices. "We're trying to be nimble and move quickly," says Phil Milne, who heads the money-transfer company, based in Minneapolis. MoneyGram generally charges lower transaction fees and offers a better exchange rate than Western Union. But Western Union, having partnered with national post offices in some 25 countries, including...
...York City. The suit claims that the newspaper damaged Rowling's intellectual-property rights and harmed Scholastic's $3 million global marketing campaign. Booksellers worldwide had to sign an agreement with the publisher, forbidding them from selling any copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix until 12:01 a.m. Greenwich mean time on June...