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...author was in the U.S. this week for a book tour, mainly for schoolchildren, but I had been lucky enough to win a ticket in a sweepstakes for the only evening event in New York City. So there I sat, gazing down in awe as she read from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, answered questions from the audience, and then signed two thousand books, including mine. As Rowling settled down, the crowd did not. On the edge of their seats, they clung on to every word coming from the woman on the velvet-covered throne, often bursting into applause...
...great geneticist slunk back to the U.S. on Friday - his sold-out U.K. tour for his new book called Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science canceled after the apparently racist remarks he made to Britain's Sunday Times Magazine last weekend - it's clear that Watson's latest provocation is not one he'll shrug off lightly. Indeed, Watson, 79, says he is "mortified" by the imbroglio, and apologizes "unreservedly" for the offending comments, in which he suggested black people are not as smart as whites: he told the Sunday Times' Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe that...
...pistol, that playing the cautious, introverted girl was not a part of who she was," says Poryes. Her father signed on as her TV dad. "It's art imitating life imitating art," he says. "Miley cut her teeth and learned to walk and sing riding around on my tour...
...Cyrus sees them all looking back at her. On tour, she says, "I'll see a group of 8-year-olds and a group of teenagers with their 80-year-old grandma that took them who's still gonna enjoy the show." Wittingly or not, they're looking at a studio model as old as that granny: create a brand that offers something for everyone. Then sell everyone as much of it as possible...
...began in March—displacing five varsity teams and causing an uproar among students when it was unexpectedly announced last fall. “We’re actually very close to the initial projections on the duration of this project,” he said during a tour of the facility yesterday. “It’s still falling within that six to seven-month time frame that we were hoping to achieve.” Shift schedules have already been sent to undergraduate employees to begin work within the next several weeks, according to Hilary...