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...minor characters. It’s not acceptable to just have a crush on Harry. Everyone loves Harry. No, to be hardcore you have to get more intimate with the characters. A friend of mine idolizes Lee Jordan, the rarely-mentioned Quidditch announcer, while I prefer the scraggly Professor Lupin, despite his tendency to turn into a wolf at inopportune moments...
...more important as a demonstration of the immense power of cognitive science to counter armchair philosophy in debates over human behavior. Was Hobbes right in thinking mankind was fundamentally bad? Any anthropologist can tell you that human violence is universal. Is it a sign of poor taste to prefer Mozart to Schoenberg? Behavioral psychology teaches that dissonance makes babies...
...This bill has been a major sticking point over the last four months; the House passed a similar bill easily, while the Senate is still in a deadlock. Senate Democrats want to ensure Homeland Security staffers will be protected under union membership, while Republicans would prefer the President be given as much leeway as possible to hire and fire employees as the department grows and changes. President Bush, frustrated by the Senate's refusal to pass a bill allowing him ultimate control over the department, announced that lawmakers will stay in Washington as long as it takes...
...women would prefer a high-definition digital TV to a 1-carat diamond ring, says a Consumer Electronics Association survey...
...pilsner, then you’ve tried DeBisschop’s work. Every drop of John Harvard’s beer is a DeBisschop creation—even the five beers in the John Harvard’s sampler are personally chosen by him. What does the master himself prefer to drink? “My favorite is a good pale ale,” he says...