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...time he finally goes to recover it he finds that his heart "had grown strange during its long exile, blind and savage in the darkness to which it had been condemned, and its appetites had grown powerful and perverse." Also it had gotten hairy. Rowling doesn't tell us the why of the hair, and no plot points turn on it; it's just there - one of those creepy, evocative details that participate in a logic deeper and stranger than that of plot and moral. (See pictures of Harry Potter's fans around the world...
...It’s a show and tell really—it’s not quite an argument,” Smith said of her work’s thesis...
...ended up,” he said.Raygor could see burn marks on the sides of the hotels, and shattered glass was everywhere. Firefighters were till dousing areas of the building that were still smoking. “Large portions of the building were charred and black, and we could tell there had been a fire,” he said. “Tons of windows were blown open.”Raygor said it was seeing the damage in real life that brought it all home. He said that India must be very careful about how it responds...
...Since the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week, journalists and public intellectuals in the West have been quick to tell their Indian counterparts that India did not, in fact, just experience their own 9/11. Cambridge University professor Priyamvada Gopal wrote in The Guardian yesterday, that “describing last week’s attacks in Mumbai as India’s 9/11 diminishes both that carnage and the atrocity in New York seven years ago.” It was just typical domestic political subterfuge, or no more than the usual conflict with Pakistan. But for Indian citizens, those...
...Sunshine State did a double take on Wednesday when the website Politico.com quoted an e-mail from Bush that said, "I am considering it." He'll probably decide, Bush friends tell TIME, in January. And if he does resolve to run, the popularity he still enjoys in Florida, as well as the lingering weakness of the Democratic Party in the state, would make him the clear and immediate front runner...