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...Duncan, Yock, and Barron, it is the storyline that puts the” Harry Potter” series in a class of its own. More than one journalist has compared the series to Charles Dickens’ “The Old Curiosity Shop,” published in serial form from 1840 to 1841. The last chapter arrived from Britain in November 1841, and New Yorkers crowded the docks to greet the ship, calling, “Is Little Nell dead...
...this would create an impasse but says the murder on British soil of a British citizen demanded action. The Kremlin, for its part, has been at pains to improve its image abroad, hiring U.S. and British public-relations consultants to help. Yet the country has grown increasingly pugnacious, picking serial fights with Western powers. Putin has recently appeared to draw parallels between U.S. interventionism and the aggression of the Third Reich, threatened to train missiles on Europe if America sited its planned missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, and this month suspended Russian participation in the Conventional...
...EVANGELICALS IN MOTION The Democrats' courtship of religious voters exploits a rare Republican predicament: disillusioned with Bush's stewardship and serial scandals, many religious conservatives see a field in which their preferred candidates can't win, and those who can win include, for now, a politically elastic Mormon; the twice-divorced, pro-choice, gay-friendly former New York City Mayor; and a maverick who called conservative religious leaders "agents of intolerance" the last time he ran. "I think that this emerging change in mind-set, at least within significant segments of the Democratic Party, could pay tremendous dividends...
...Labour leader never kept a diary, unintentionally casting Campbell as his acerbic Boswell, whose journals reveal their serial encounters with Presidents and Premiers, royals and rock stars, lawmen and faith leaders, press barons and members of the public. That last category, "people outside the Westminster bubble," is the one to which the author appeals, over the heads of a media that both he and Blair have come to regard as irredeemably hostile. This, says Campbell, is the message he hopes his readers will take away with them: "During that period an awful lot happened, and some of it was unexpected...
...Labour leader never kept a diary, unintentionally casting Campbell as his acerbic Boswell. Campbell's journals, edited from over two million words to a thick tome of 350,000, reveal their serial encounters with Presidents and Premiers, royals and rock stars, lawmen and faith leaders, press barons and members of the public. It's to that last category, "people outside the Westminster bubble," he tells TIME, that the author is appealing, over the heads of a media both he and his former boss have come to regard as irredeemably hostile...