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Father Figures Three other Hogwarts boys - one in the present, two from the past - have virtually the same burden: they've been chosen to play crucial roles in the great conflict. One shadowy figure is a student whose old, annotated schoolbook, marked "Property of the Half-Blood Prince," helps Harry ace his potions course and perform some vital magic. The other, seen in flashbacks, is the brilliant, troubling Tom Riddle, Voldemort to be, whom Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) recruits from an orphanage to Hogwarts. As played at 11 by Hero Fiennes Tiffin (a nephew of Ralph Fiennes, the series' Voldemort...
Living and working in Los Angeles this summer, I’m coming to the realization that this is the place where I’m going to live, at least for a few years, right out of college. I’ve considered the important questions: Where in the sprawling hodgepodge am I going to live? How am I going to handle the traffic? But only one question causes me to lose sleep at night: Who’s going to be “my team...
Case in point: Last Friday, a restaurant with an innocuous name and façade offered one of the most delicious and amusing culinary experiences I’ve ever...
...gastronomy. Or I might like to introduce friends to Ciao, tel: (32-2) 513 0323, an intimate Italian restaurant, close to Sablon, filled mostly with locals. Bocconi in the grand Amigo Hotel, tel: (32-2) 547 4715, is where I like taking my favorite Parisian actresses for dinner. I've found many of the characters in my books at these places. Join me sometime, and who knows, you may spot them...
...population, is an area of vast oil, mineral and agricultural wealth. Under a decade-old "develop the West" policy, the GDP of the region climbed from $20 billion in 2000 to $44.5 billion in 2006. Many Uighurs feel, however, that the boom has benefited majority Han Chinese, while they've been left out. "If you're Han, there are opportunities. But if you're from my group, there's nothing you can do," says a Uighur man in Urumqi who declined to give his name. "We're all hungry. We go all over looking for work, but they say they...