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...have argued that the books promote witchcraft and Satanism; a student in Houston had to get up and leave the room every time the teacher read aloud from Harry Potter. But even that ruckus has calmed down or come to stand for a much larger conversation about what should shape the moral life of children. "I think any unusual focus on things like magic and witchcraft is a bad idea," says Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Denver, "but these things can also be a natural part of storytelling with children. So I think the Potter argument is really about bigger...
...call art "the research-and-development wing of the culture"--took over the center in 1995. Very quickly he started pushing to build a new laboratory. What he got, at 87,000 sq. ft., is the size of many substantial museums. The Rosenthal Center may occupy a tight rectangular shape, but so does your average locomotive. This is a building that does not so much sit on its street corner as continuously arrive there. On its longer side, it forms sweeping irregular stacks of white and black concrete and darkened glass, all of them resting on a clear-glass lobby...
...most recently at Morgan Stanley. Phillips has been more bullish on Oracle's stock than most, but he was heralded by Institutional Investor as the sector's top analyst nine years in a row. At Oracle, he will keep up his industry contacts (read: customers and competitors) and help shape strategy...
...Many travel books use a quest to shape the narrative, and Yoga is no exception. The author is searching for the mythical Zone of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 postapocalyptic film, Stalker, a place where, Dyer says, "Everyone can become whatever they want to be." As both author and central character of his "somewhat fictionalized" travelogue, Dyer can likewise choose an identity. But instead of striking a heroic pose, he portrays himself as a hapless failure, someone who is always wishing to do something?hop a freight train, ask a woman out, adopt a child in Goa?but never follows through...
...matter of life and death." He says the cuts would eliminate 50% of the places at the school. Last fall, the city declared an "extreme budgetary hardship," the first step toward winning extraordinary financial help from the federal government. But the German government is in terrible financial shape too - and the two sides have failed to reach an agreement on aid. In the meantime, Berlin's mood grows darker. "When we talk about poverty in Germany, we usually think of the Third World," says East Berlin's Siggelkow. "But we have an enormous problem right here." And, sadly for Berliners...