Word: stonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think again. Since J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was released in August 1998, thousands of young--and old--Americans have reentered a magical world via Harry Potter...
...Scottish Rowling has now written three books, The Chamber of Secrets and The Prisoner of Azkaban in addition to her first, which are currently the top three books on The New York Times Bestseller List. The Sorcerer's Stone has been on that list for the past 50 weeks...
...think they're a little out of sync," Stone said. "They're not ready to go. I think they need some more time playing in a Harvard jersey...
...America's love affair with conspiracy theories, the trial was notable in its media absence. Court TV televised the opening days, then skipped town, and civil rights leaders, including Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson (who was at the assassination), have been quiet on the ruling. Even conspiracy-lover Oliver Stone allowed his option on the film rights to the murder expire. Of course, a trial that was based on defendant Loyd Jowers' six-year-old claim to a TV reporter that he paid someone (not James Earl Ray) to kill King is a little suspect, especially since he didn...
...hoped to bomb Iraq back to the Stone Age and then forget about it," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But it's obvious now that you can't forget about Iraq, and it's hard to see what the bombing accomplished except to end the monitoring system. Now the U.S. appears to have come around to the European approach, emphasizing the need to have monitors in there." The danger now, though, is that UNSCOM (the United Nations Special Commission) gets replaced with a tamer and less confrontational monitoring body. "UNSCOM's combativeness eventually created political problems for both...