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Wang Dan said he did not press for entrance, and thought Shang "got some pressure from higher levels."
Some additional students may have applied early due to Harvard's change to a non-exclusive early action program. The new policy means that students may simultaneously apply early to Harvard and other non-exclusive early action schools.
In any case, odds are that the only thing that could kill Potter now would be some rapid dive in popularity due to an American knock-off. Until then, I'll be waiting in line for the next book, unless I get one from Santa Claus.
If we permit ourselves a divergence, of some thousands of miles, to Australia (that quaint, puzzling country that just voted overwhelmingly to keep their Queen), the Pauline Hanson phenomenon provides an illuminating analogy. Hanson--the red-headed fish-and-chip shop lady--shows what can happen to right-wing extremists...
Hanson the Independent blamed Australia's economic woes on Asian immigration and aboriginal welfare-dependence. It was "their" fault for "our" problems. And her views found some resonance among those who had lost jobs and saw immigration as an easy and obvious culprit, or those who saw their own hardship...