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...they lose whatever naiveté they have in the course of the film. Yet Gone Baby Gone has a lightness and humor to it. At one point, Ed Harris' police detective dismissively suggests that the young-looking Kenzie should forget the case and get back to his Harry Potter book. In another scene, a drug lord points a gun at Kenzie and warns that if he sees him again, he might "be discourteous...
...many books have you read that are as relevant to kindergartners as they are to college graduates?Personally, I can think of very few—not even the Harry Potter series rises to the challenge. So when I heard that Nobel laureate E.J. Corey, the Harvard Chemistry Department’s biggest gun, planned to write a book examining the biochemistry of the world’s most important medicines that would be accessible to college undergrads and scientists alike—the equivalents of kindergartners to college graduates in terms of technical scientific knowledge—it?...
...HARRY POTTER J.K. Rowling's blockbuster series about a boy wizard has been repeatedly challenged by claims that it promotes witchcraft...
...Miller is every bit the Southern gentleman. And yet, surprisingly, every bit the World of Warcraft enthusiast.“You think you won’t be into it ‘til you try it,” he drawls. “Like Harry Potter.”It’s an apt comparison. Like the ubiquitous bespectacled boy wonder, World of Warcraft (WoW) is a hugely popular “massively multiplayer online role-playing game” (MMORPG) that asks its participants to imagine an alternative reality where the inhabitants aren?...
...colors and names, the teens un-self-consciously donned outlandish costumes, and the drunken twenty-somethings made way for the flood of families who filled the streets, all in the name of a book. But what really caught my attention about the release festivities for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” was something much more subtle. On the front window of local Anderson’s Bookshop, a piece of white newsprint asked a seemingly simple question in bold black letters: “Is Snape Evil?” Around that question, the city?...