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...captures human compassion at its most sophisticated level, as Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch), a famous East German writer, is placed under 24-hour watch, with Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) as the lead spy. But in hopes of uncovering Dreyman’s disloyalties, the snitch finds his own. Wiesler’s intimate viewing into the literal lives of others opens his eyes to the things lacking in his own life, such as the liberation of free thinking, the passion of reciprocated love, and the melody that comes from various arrangements of keys on a piano...
...Reverend Graham Taylor grabbed the spotlight like a Quidditch seeker seizing the Golden Snitch last week, when the news service Reuters reported that Taylor, a bestselling British fantasy novelist, had been kicked out of a grade school after allegedly calling Harry Potter...
...Harvard Book Store, which has pre-sold about 400 copies, four propitious patrons—“one lucky student from each Hogwarts House”—will receive “Golden Snitches” redeemable for audio recordings of the penultimate Potter tome. The snitch, per Potter lore, is a small ball used in the sport called quidditch...
...become fashionable to take a menial job--nanny, say, or assistant to Anna Wintour--and then snitch about it in a thinly veiled novel. Anyone have a problem with that? Pine used to do publicity for Miramax, and she puts the grade-A material she gathered there to excellent use in the tale of Karen Jacobs, a young woman who leaves a dignified but dull job for a terrifying, exhausting--but occasionally glamorous--one at the fictional Glorious Pictures, where even the office dog gets its teeth bleached. The plot is gossamer thin, but the dirt is deep, dark...
...second youngest son, Archie—Class of 1917—was every roommate’s worst nightmare. “[At Harvard] he was a prude and a snitch, notorious for turning in students who enlivened their quarters with strong drink and sportive women,” O’Toole writes...