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...Potter Gryffindor Hoch (the first name after Harry's surname and the middle one after the dormitory house in which he lives at school). She seemed to be getting stronger, brighter, in her excitement about her new pen pal. Jo wrote back at length, typing from her home in Scotland as the windows rattled in the January gales. "It's a bit spooky," she wrote one night. "I sleep at the top of the house (like Ron) and when it's stormy like tonight I keep waking up wondering what creaked ... you see, I'm not as brave as Harry...
...year-old post of Lord Chancellor - who is not only a legislator in the House of Lords, but a Cabinet minister and head of the judiciary - will be abolished and its responsibilities transferred to a new Department of Constitutional Affairs, which will also be responsible for Scotland and Wales. In the reshuffle, which followed the resignation of Health Secretary Alan Milburn, the number of Cabinet posts was reduced from 23 to 21. Rocky Road to Peace AFRICA Tensions remained high in both Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as peace talks between the Liberian government and rebels resumed...
...They were married in his hospital room. There he died three months later, aged 46. Brownell was a devoted if inept steward of his legacy. As biographer Spurling notes, Brownell redeemed herself with a lawsuit that won control of Orwell's royalties for son Richard, who grew up in Scotland, where he still lives, and became a dealer in farm equipment. Brownell also enforced Orwell's request for no biographies, though after her death in 1980 the gates opened. One former Orwell girlfriend told Taylor he was the eighth biographer to approach her. There have been at least as many...
...like any other healthy young man coming of age, he celebrated by giving an interview to Britain's Press Association. His Royal Flyness, who seems to have answered questions while playing golf on a beach, is finishing up his second year at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he is captain of the water polo team. "People here just treat me like everyone else," he says. "I'm able to live a near normal life." William is majoring in art history but considering a switch to geography (apparently still a cutting-edge discipline in Britain...
Unfortunately, no breaks are available in Greenock, a depressed shipbuilding town in Scotland, where all the yards are closed. And for a kid nearing his 16th birthday, Liam has a lot of problems. His beloved mom is in jail for drug dealing. Her boyfriend and father are brutal small-time crooks trying to get Liam to induce her back into the criminal life even before her sentence is up. His refusal leads to a beating--and to dreams of revenge and rescue...