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...beers” before his plane departed, a bottle of wine during Thanksgiving dinner, whiskey out of the liquor cabinet every night after his parents went to sleep, a small bottle of Bacardi Limon mixed into a concession-stand Coke during a viewing of Harry Potter on Friday and a $20 bag of marijuana split with a high school friend before a night spent watching Animal Planet on Saturday. “I do feel cleaner,” Black said, reflecting on his week of sobriety over drinks Sunday morning at Daedalus, “And I think...
Despite the eerie resemblance of Hogwarts’ dining hall to Annenberg, Harvard is hardly a School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Here we cheer on the football team, not quiddich players–and Larry Summers is no Albus Dumbledore. Cheesy comparisons aside, after seeing the just-released Harry Potter movie, Melissa A. Eccleston ’04 “got the vibe that the whole storyline was very Harvardish.” Recalling scenes such as when Harry and friends leave home to go to school and features such as “houses” featuring masters...
...understandable, then, that Harry Potter has found quite a following here at Harvard. In the past week, many students have taken a break from their normal study routines to head out and enjoy the new movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Tim B. Lautz ’02, a Harry Potter enthusiast who saw the movie at 9:30 a.m. on opening day and has since viewed it a second time, opines, “the movie did as good a job adapting the material as possible, although the books cannot be matched. There is just...
...from posting the latest blockbuster DVD on the Web for all to see and download. With Denning's system, however, only subscribers in specified locations--such as movie theaters--would be able to unscramble the data. The technology works as well for national security as it does for Harry Potter. Coded messages that the State Department sends its embassies, for example, could only be deciphered in the embassy buildings themselves, greatly reducing the risk of interception...
...wasn't always hotter-than-Potter. She went to Hong Kong's Diocesan Girls' School, a hoity-toity institution for little ladies in the making. Classmate and designer Johanna Ho, who schooled with Mok before going on to London to study with Stella McCartney, remembers Mok the modest: "She always wore glasses, was a straight-A student, had short hair and braces." Mok's happy to admit she was a nerd, an academic junkie. She won a scholarship to study Italian literature in Trieste and followed it with three years at the University of London. There she met Hong Kong...