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...book that kids have first experienced on the screen. The Harry Potter movie has led to a bump in reading of the already popular Harry Potter books, which has led young readers to C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Tolkien. "We can't keep Lord of the Rings on the shelf," Kunzel says. Tolkien purists who can't bear to see images of Middle-earth put on the screen should take some comfort in the fact that the paperback version of the trilogy is flying off the shelves. The first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring, is currently No.1...
Sure it was fun in the bull-market '90s. But after Wall Street's recent plunges, who would want to ring the opening or closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange? Everyone, it turns out. Especially since Sept. 11, as heads of state and celebs troop to ground zero and want to stop by, requests to be a bell ringer are up. The N.Y.S.E.'s Bob Zito, who filters the requests, says the first five months of 2002 are almost booked. As a courtesy, Zito will call the volunteers on a bad market day to let them...
...members who died in the Sept. 11 hijackings. Prosecutor Kay Nehm said el-Moutassadeq is accused of "knowingly supporting the terrorist organization with logistical measures." In Belgium, an Algerian man was arrested for passport forgery. He and two men being held in France may have been part of a ring suspected of supplying false papers to the assassins of Afghan leader Ahmed Shah Massoud. And in Italy, police took two alleged al-Qaeda recruiters into custody...
BRITAIN One Fell Swoop In an unprecedented global swoop, police on four continents broke up an online child-pornography ring, arresting more than 130 people suspected of trading images of young children. Twenty countries took part in the 10-month-long British-led investigation, codenamed Operation Landmark...
...work-together patriotic obligations of Sept. 11 recede farther and farther into political history, 2002 is getting close and even 2004 isn't as far away as it used to be. And Tom Daschle seems to have Democrats united behind him in the bigger purpose - bottle up the Republicans, ring those direction-of-the-country alarms and let the voters sort...