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...Harry and his best friends working together to fight evil. It is not a p.c. statement about sexuality. It is not Harry and the Angry Inch. J.K. Rowling's story started as a children's book and evolved into teenage reading material. That is it. Cloud is gay and proud, which is fantastic. But as Grey's Anatomy's T.R. Knight said, "I hope being gay is not the most interesting part about me." I am sure Dumbledore thought the same thing. Kristy van den Herik, Arlington, Mass...
...While I am proud of the U.S. and its democratic institutions, it is indeed sobering to compare the accomplishments of the Chinese communist regime with our own tarnished image. The Chinese government, despite its political repression and failure to improve the lives of the rural poor, has fostered a newfound prosperity for millions of its people. Our government, on the other hand, condones the torture of war prisoners, uses massive computer surveillance to spy on its own citizens and continues to vainly pursue a war that kills our youth. China's Me Generation can ignore its government yet still admire...
...school could buy real lion mascots. As if that wasn’t enough, they added that other departments might have to use drastic methods to get dough—such as the Statistics department playing the lottery. Burn. “I think they’re very proud of the capital campaign, so our timing may have been off,” explains Drill Master Matthew S. Fasman ’08, who is also a chair of the Crimson’s Information Technology board. The Columbia Athletic Department could not be reached for comment. The band...
...Democratic Union and the SPD, the two "volksparteien" that have ruled Germany in coalition since 2005. He may be best known outside Germany for his disparaging remarks in 2005 comparing hedge funds to "locusts" that descend on a country and strip it bare (a comment of which he remained proud, keeping a statue of the insect on his desk). But Müntefering was in fact a more centrist figure than many of his party colleagues. Newspapers referred to him as the "keystone" on which the grand coalition rested and the "hinge" binding the partnership together...
...also benefitted from a bit of home-court officiating. “It was on their own court, so the officiating was as bizarre as it could possibly be,” she said. Despite the turnover trouble and the problems on the boards, the coach said she was proud of her team for keeping things close for most of the game. “[The final score] was not indicative of the game,” she said. “We were not only in it in the end, [but] we were up by 10 in the first...