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...hover nearby, visibly nervous. "Wait, now I'm panicking. Oh, my God! Yes, I'm sure I can say that. I think I will have exhausted the possibilities of that. For me." Beyond that, she isn't giving away many clues, but she's approaching the project with her usual ruthless skepticism. "We'll have to see if it's good enough to be published. I mean, that is a real concern, obviously, because the first thing I write post Harry could be absolutely dreadful, and, you know, people will buy it. So, you know, you're left with this...
ANOTHER REASON IT'S A BIG WEEK FOR YOU AS EDUCATION SECRETARY: THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT MORE READING GOING ON THAN USUAL. I'm all about Harry Potter this week. I have two teenagers, and they have already ordered it from Amazon, and it's coming in the mail. My little one, the 13-year-old, has spent the whole week reading the previous thing to make sure she's got the whole trajectory...
Even Harvard’s Muggle halls of power have relented, allowing rising high-school juniors in the Secondary School Program to wander outside the Yard’s gates past their usual 12:30 a.m. curfew—but only if they return with book in hand...
Dolphins, dogs and primates are the usual suspects when scientists talk about higher mental functions, but fairness, at least, extends even deeper into the lower animal kingdom. If you watch rats wrestle, says Stephen Siviy, a psychologist at Gettysburg College, you'll see that the bigger rat lets the smaller rat win every now and then so that the smaller rat will keep playing. That, he says, could be interpreted as a sense of fair play, although he emphasizes that a rat's behavior is probably Darwinian--based not on thoughtful consideration but on what has worked in the past...
...lecture from a corporate luminary such as ex-Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei or Matsui Securities CEO Michio Matsui, discussion about the hot business topics of the day, and a round of networking over cocktails at the club's bar. For Fujimoto, this is the new business as usual. "The old Japanese system of socialistic capitalism is no longer applicable to the current global economy," he says...