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...could use any of the magical spells from Harry Potter, which would you choose? - Sohini Desai, San Diego It's not a spell, but if I could choose any magical thing, it would definitely be the lucky potion. If you have too much, apparently, it screws you up, but the idea of having that perfect day is just so wonderful...
...inspired. Otherwise, they wouldn't have done nearly as well as they have. They have taken the best bits of different kinds of literature. It's the latest in a long line of orphan literature. There's the English boarding school. There's the good-vs.-evil thing. The fact that she came up with the entire thing on one train journey is pretty remarkable...
...Alan in Equus? - José Pérez, Barcelona Study the script, develop an incredibly trusting relationship with your director and just lose your inhibitions. No one's thinking about the nudity. You'd be mad if you're not worried about that - it's quite a scary thing - but you're doing a job. (Read TIME's review of Equus...
...retired operations official says he feels at least a little sympathy for Panetta - and worries about the legacy he will leave his successor. "No matter how this thing works its way out," he says, "who in the world would want to be the next director...
...small, private enterprises have such difficulty is that China does not have a well-established system of credit ratings. "Banks are geared to lending to very big companies that are very easy to understand," says Spelich. "Lending to a company that has maybe five employees is not an intuitive thing." Banks consider small businesses poor loan candidates because they have shorter life cycles, often keep spotty financial records and lack significant property or other forms of collateral, says Du, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences deputy director. Lending to a state-owned enterprise comes with at least the tacit understanding...