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...Brien, who served as deputy dean at Harvard for two years before she was fired from her post, will oversee the school's administrative and financial operations, according to a press release. She will assume her new job on July...
Scholastic Press released the book to U.S. audiences in September 1998 under the title “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” and three months later it made its first of 79 appearances on The New York Times fiction bestseller list. In 2000, The New York Times created a special bestseller list for children’s books after publishers complained that the Harry Potter series kept other, deserving adult books off the list...
Approximately 40 minutes earlier, I had exited the bathroom to find two large clusters of colleagues in the newsroom of Folha de São Paulo. The first surrounded an Internet video of someone apparently holding a press conference. Unable to understand what he was saying, I moved on to the other group sitting around a television set that depicted a fiery but indiscernible image. “An airplane crashed,” someone said in Portuguese. Suddenly, our editor Denise started screaming reporters’ names and the newsroom plunged into frenetic activity. Vinicius, a reporter, stopped...
...crisis rapidly developed. Though the fire billowed less voluminously from the warehouse due to copious attention from the hundreds of firefighters on hand, a neighboring building soon caught fire. We smelled gasoline. The fire coursed rapidly through the building, until it entirely engulfed the soon-charred structure. The press and onlookers stole closer for a better look; I got within 50 yards. The second blaze culminated in a series of explosions that scattered our retinue and signaled the building’s collapse, which we watched in horror. The smoke and smell of burning rubber became unbearable. We watched...
...just our diplomatic tools, but our economic tools, our cultural tools, all the tools in our tool box to keep us safe," he said. He also took the opportunity to stress one of his campaign's broader themes about the future. ""When I talk about hope, the Washington press corps gets kinda of cynical, 'that's so naïve,'" Obama said. "'People with experience don't talk about hope. He's a hope peddler, he's a hope monger...