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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Father Figures Three other Hogwarts boys - one in the present, two from the past - have virtually the same burden: they've been chosen to play crucial roles in the great conflict. One shadowy figure is a student whose old, annotated schoolbook, marked "Property of the Half-Blood Prince," helps Harry ace his potions course and perform some vital magic. The other, seen in flashbacks, is the brilliant, troubling Tom Riddle, Voldemort to be, whom Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) recruits from an orphanage to Hogwarts. As played at 11 by Hero Fiennes Tiffin (a nephew of Ralph Fiennes, the series' Voldemort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Potter: Darker, Richer and All Grown Up | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

...grads, give a 16% return on every dollar state and local governments invest in them and are one of the best tools we have to pull ourselves out of the recession. In short, as Obama noted at Macomb, "community colleges are an essential part of our recovery in the present and our prosperity in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Pushes for More Aid to Community Colleges | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

...prime time depicts a medical system in which the technology is amazing but access is terrifying and sometimes random. Nurse Jackie, Hawthorne and NBC midseason nurse drama Mercy present nurses butting heads with doctors who demand incorrect treatments, with dangerous or fatal results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POTUS TV: Paging Dr. Obama | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...doctor-owned specialty hospital in Texas - the state with the highest number of such facilities - developed breathing problems and died, despite being taken by ambulance to a larger community hospital. The staff had called 911 after noticing the man's respiratory function was poor, but there was no doctor present to help. And just last month, a female patient at the physician-owned Colorado Orthopaedic and Surgical Hospital died after she became unresponsive following surgery and was transferred to a community hospital. The facility has suspended all outpatient surgeries and the state health department has ordered the hospital to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Health-Care Reform Could Hurt Doctor-Owned Hospitals | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...protecting its citizens both at home and abroad. Human-rights organizations and the local press point to abuses suffered by Egyptian migrant workers in the Persian Gulf states as the government seemingly turns a blind eye. "The government is also trying to hijack the campaign and trying to present itself as patriotic in defense of Egyptians abroad," says journalist Hamalawy. "What do they do for the Egyptians who are in the gulf and who actually face similar treatment, if not worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragic Symbol: Egypt's Headscarf Martyr | 7/12/2009 | See Source »

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