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Students hoping to be nipped by cupid's arrow answer 30 questions about their ideal first date, their favorite television show and campus publication and the book title that best describes their life--choices ranged from Harry Potter to The Sound and the Fury...
...were right to choose author J.K. Rowling as a runner-up [PERSON OF THE YEAR, Dec. 25-Jan. 1]. Through her Harry Potter books, she has had a huge impact. Harry is seen in bookshops all over France, and the invasion has just begun. He is bringing back the joy of reading to French kids. But the French grudge against things foreign still exists, and Rowling may not get the full attention she deserves. That's a shame, as only Harry has the power to overcome the resistance of kids to reading. The French just won't admit it. NICOLAS...
...Princess Leia's night off LENI RIEFENSTAHL Creator of Nazi propaganda flick Triumph of the Will plans first release in 45 years. They just don't make totalitarians like they used to Losers ANNE ROBINSON Named "fashion's Weakest Link" by critic Mr. Blackwell and likened to "Harry Potter in drag." That's one brave fashion critic BERNARD BONNET Ex-Governor of Corsica found guilty of arson after ordering the destruction of illegal caf?s. The Guv alleged they were harboring stale p?t? RUSSELL CROWE Chubbed-up "Gladi-eater" is told by studio to shed 19 kilos. Imagine outgrowing Meg Ryan...
...tropical island. In the year 2000, professed reality battled abject fantasy for primacy. Theater, always about acting, got into the reality act with Lifegame, an improv based on events from audience members' lives. In books, true-life stories continued to sell, but nothing like the fantastically fantastic Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (Between Harry, boy bands and PlayStation 2, it was a very good year to be 12.) In architecture, Frank Gehry's baroque fantasies reached a mainstream audience through the Experience Music Project in Seattle. In the hit film Erin Brockovich, a feel-good fantasy posed...
...uncertain that any kid of reading age in the English-speaking world slept during the first week of July as the midnight Friday release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire drew near. At the Book People bookstore in Austin, Texas, three young Harry wannabes were mesmerized by excitement as they claimed their copies of the fourth installment in J.K. Rowling's magical series. As if to confirm that there is a huge gulf between ages 11 and 14, a major part of the the latter demographic fell under the spell of a vastly different celebrity--a real...