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...long and profitable franchise--director Chris Columbus has bravely gone toe to toe with the imaginations of readers who have purchased 100 million Potter books and made the boy wizard one of the most beloved figures in literary history. (The author, once a struggling single mom in Edinburgh, Scotland, has become an international celebrity since Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, as the book is known in Britain, was published there four years ago.) The big-screen adaptation is a film of such eye-popping grandeur, dazzling special effects and sumptuous production values that you may not notice right...
...involving piece by Peter Ho Davies, “Think of England.” Set in Wales during World War II, “Think of England” reveals the tension behind interactions between Welsh and English, provincials and soldiers, men and women. Pidgeon, raised in Scotland, slipped gradually into British vowels as she read the dialogue. Her unassuming reading allowed the subtlety of Davies’ writing to do its work, presenting a young Welsh girl yearning for a life beyond her provincial town...
...mutilated (organs removed) in such a way that demonstrated an intimate knowledge of human physiology, suggesting that Jack was a very well educated man—likely, one of the British upper class. The Ripper worked methodically and ruthlessly, taunting authorities with letters and sending half a kidney to Scotland Yard over the four-month period. Unlike the psychological profiling so common in today’s police forces, the Brits were entirely unprepared to deal with a rash of violence so brutal and monumentally evil. After the murder of Mary Kelly, the killings stopped, but no suspect was arrested...
Maybe the royals are mortals like the rest of us. For instance, you know how you get when crazy Uncle Ed keeps shoving his camcorder in your face? PRINCE WILLIAM, 19, feels your chagrin. During his first week at St. Andrews University in Scotland, a camera crew was twice spotted breaking strict privacy rules imposed by Buckingham Palace for the heir to the heir to the throne. After the cameramen were thrown off campus, Wills called his father to complain. An "incandescent" Prince Charles, the London papers report, was even angrier when he learned the crew worked for Ardent Productions...
William has enough to worry about though, seeing as how he is now struggling through freshman year at St. Andrews University in Scotland as a history of art student. He has been in classes, since Monday...