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...first book. This time, he also lets his own imagination run riot from time to time. In the new film, Quidditch - the ballgame played by witches and wizards on broomsticks - seems more like a thrilling car chase than an intramural sport. And Harry's showdown with a monstrous serpent in the bowels of Hogwarts should equal the most excitable readers' expectations. Making their Potter debut in Chamber of Secrets are Dobby, a funny, forlorn, computer-animated elf, Miriam Margolyes as Professor Sprout and Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart, the vain Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher - a role that...
Other publications did not exercise such restraint. This esteemed paper did not ease the flow of virulently anti-Palestinian articles and images in its editorial pages: while Israeli soldiers were besieging Ramallah, Qaluilya, Nablus, Tulkarm, Bethlehem and Jenin, The Crimson published a cartoon of a vicious serpent besieging a Herculean Israel (April...
...over this area before moving downstream to a series of tiered waterfalls. At the top, where Jayavarman II chose to bathe, he again had the river diverted so that the stone bed could be carved with an elaborate rendering of the Hindu god Vishnu. Vishnu is laying on the serpent Ananta, with his wife Lakshmi at his feet and a lotus flower protrudes from his navel bearing the god Brahma. Visitors can walk into the water to take pictures but are instructed not to touch the underwater carvings...
...Marriott's Manohra Moon. Nursing a cool drink in the comfortable embrace of rattan chairs, you can enjoy the City of Angels tinted pink by the setting sun. The daily cruise lasts about an hour and floats by some of the river's loveliest sights, from the serpent-shaped finials of the Grand Palace to the phallic silhouette of Wat Arun. At $8 for a glass of wine and another $11 for the cruise, it is one of the more expensive bars in Bangkok, but the ambience is unparalleled. To catch the Manohra, hop on the Marriott's free ferry...
...matter what everyone else may think, we say the world's oldest profession is marketing. How else can you describe a pursuit that makes an appearance in the Book of Genesis? What we mean here is the part in which the serpent sells Eve on that apple. Even granting that she was an early example of insufficient sales resistance, that was a masterpiece of promotion...