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...well known in Afghanistan? Have they read your books? In Afghanistan today there is, among men, maybe a 70 to 75 percent illiteracy rate. Among women it's probably higher than 80 percent. So the people who tend to read novels are the educated, urban, progressive, affluent professionals. So it's a skewed pool of readers to begin with. Among them, I think the opinion is divided, largely on the side of being supportive. Not always agreeing with everything that I've said, but being glad that these issues are being discussed, that Afghanistan is being discussed. Also there...
...rate, she's written them now - Scholastic has just published the actual Tales of Beedle the Bard, a volume that includes five stories: the three Ron mentions plus "The Tale of the Three Brothers" (which already appeared in full in Deathly Hallows) and "The Warlock's Hairy Heart." Beedle joins Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and, basically, all the movies as one of the minor but undeniable pleasures of the Potter canon. It's a book of meta-fairy tales - fairy tales for people who already live in a fairy-tale world where dragons...
...relax some aspects of the act, arguing that being forced to significantly increase contributions to pension plans may force them to file for bankruptcy. When President Bush signed the Pension Protection Act in 2006, companies won cost-savings concessions, such as the ability to use a higher interest rate in computing lump sump pension payouts. But the savings from those concessions have been swamped by stock market losses...
About 100 online surveys have been completed so far. McGovern said he was not entirely satisfied with this response rate...
...group setting. “With respect to certain factual statements, people want to be seen a certain way, and also to present themselves a certain way,” Sunstein said. “When people are told by others that their views are correct, they not only rate those others as more likeable and more confident, they rate themselves as more likeable and confident...