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...figurines. The largest of Vienna's markets takes place in front of the Rathaus, or City Hall). At the Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm, look out for the procession of white-clad girls bearing candles in honor of St. Lucy (her feast is Dec. 13, the year's shortest day before the calendar change). European tour operators offer trips to most of these markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magical Christmas Markets | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

...People are going to be looking up to [Pell] even though she’s one of the shortest ones on the team,” says co-captain Angela Ruggiero...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: One Pell of a Hockey Player | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...many of those children will be tired come Saturday morning, June 21, because on the shortest night of the year, the night when whatever you dream is said to come true, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix goes on sale at one minute past midnight. On that night there will be Potter parties complete with owls and cloaks and butterbeer, and those who can will lobby their parents to let them wear their Potter pjs and sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. Some families have ordered two or three books, to prevent civil war. At 8.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Magic Of Harry Potter | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...troops stay in Iraq, even for the shortest of postwar periods, Americans will be perceived by the world as empire builders, and our actions in Iraq may spawn a thousand Osama bin Ladens who will visit devastation upon our land. If we leave Iraq, it will splinter into a thousand mini-kingdoms of quarreling power grabbers who may ignite a larger war. We can't go, and we can't stay. BOB KETLER Bethlehem, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 12, 2003 | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...sent [Herrmann] up there to swing the bat,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “He’s got a lot of power. If he could get a hold of one and hit it out of the shortest part of the park…We were looking for a dream come true up there...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Of Moments, Possibilities And Promise | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

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