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...Sorting Hat's customary verbosities this year). Snape has at long last secured the Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching job. Draco has his usual generic mischief cooking. Harry, now 16, has been made captain of Gryffindor's Quidditch team, and he has stumbled on a mysterious potions textbook that was formerly the property of--wait for it--a certain Half-Blood Prince. Meanwhile, Dumbledore and Harry, with the help of that always handy expository aid the Pensieve, are poring over the details of Voldemort's early backstory for clues to his intentions. Oh, and somebody's trying to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Potions and Tragic Magic | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

...should have known that, in the long run, first impressions are inconsequential and often incorrect. A person who appears to hold major best-friend potential on the first day of freshman week can wind up a distant acquaintance three years later. And the cover of my neuroscience textbook, with assorted 3-D brain renderings in Technicolor, appeared far more intriguing than its contents turned...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, | Title: Beyond First Impressions | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

Americans may have invented the soft science of public relations, but in Reykjavík it was the Russians who provided a textbook example of how to win friends and influence people. Soviet spokesmen went out of their way to help Western correspondents in repeated briefings. Their doors were always open--which helped give the illusion that their policies were as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Spin Control | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

After 21 years, Feldstein—who has probably taught more undergraduates than any other professor in Harvard’s history—is handing the reins of the storied and controversial course to the man who wrote Ec 10’s textbook, Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Feldstein Leaves, Changes Afoot for Ec 10 | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

After 21 years, Feldstein—who has probably taught more undergraduates than any other professor in Harvard’s history—is handing the reins of the storied and controversial course to the man who wrote Ec 10’s textbook, Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Feldstein Leaves, Changes Afoot for Ec 10 | 6/8/2005 | See Source »

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