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Perhaps realizing that 2 1/2 hr. is a marathon length for a bedtime story, screenwriter Steve Kloves tried a few changes to make this one 15 min. shorter than the first Potter film and 25 min. shorter than the second: take the story at a sauntering pace; ditch the Quidditch, mostly; and (we'd argue with this choice) drop the novel's most arresting scene, a flashback to an earlier band of Hogwarts students on a cross-species nighttime prowl...
...helped organize the kidnapping and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl masterminded two failed assassination attempts against President Pervez Musharraf in December. Musharraf earlier announced that junior military personnel were involved in the attacks on him. MEANWHILE IN BRUSSELS ... Lost in Translation The European Commission instructed staff to write shorter documents, as the arrival of 10 new member states - taking the number of official languages from 11 to 20 - threatened to overwhelm the translation service. Texts are to be limited to 15 pages, against the current average of 32. A similar order in 2001 failed to stanch the flow...
...odds are pretty good that he’ll get a shorter sentence,” Genser said...
...odds are pretty good that he’ll get a shorter sentence,” Genser said...
Harvard has begun attending two shorter practices a day rather than one long one in order to focus on specifics and match-play...