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Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Rowan Atkinson | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

...relatively short time acquired the necessary skills for political success: constant partisan bickering, numerous vacations, a short workweek, regular salary increases and no accomplishments. If successful, Bush would be justified in once again declaring "mission accomplished." With victory in hand, he can bring the troops home. Gordon Bacon, Phoenix, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

After Watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, I asked several children in the audience if they felt that the movie portrayed a "secular, bureaucratized, all-too-human sorcery, in which psychology and technology have superseded the sacred." They all answered no. They said it was a lot of fun. Do you really think that 8-year-olds go to see Harry Potter with deep analysis in mind? They were more critical of the "yucky kiss" than of any religious undertones supposedly hidden in the script. Let children be children for as long as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Aug. 6, 2007 | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...resemble The Ministry of Truth from 1984, complete with a pseudo-Fascist bureaucracy and a Muggle-Born Registration Commission headed by no less a personage than Dolores Umbridge (now permanently merged with Imelda Staunton, thanks to Staunton's indelible performance in the movie version of Order of the Phoenix). Rowling has never been a risk-taker, politically speaking, and this is hardly a subtle or controversial tack to take, but it's one we can all be relied on to get together and be outraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Potter's Last Adventure | 7/21/2007 | See Source »

...farewell to the series, Deathly Hallows is everything fans of Harry Potter could hope for. It does not reach the lyrical high-watermarks of the series - everyone has their favorites, mine being the final watercolor mourning scenes in Order of the Phoenix, with the mirror, the ghosts and, of course, Luna Lovegood. ("She's great, isn't she?" Ron says of Luna in Deathly Hallows. "Always good value.") But then again, this isn't a lyrical interlude, this is the grand finale. It calls for big battles and high body counts, force majeure and not legerdemain, and Rowling leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Potter's Last Adventure | 7/21/2007 | See Source »

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