Word: witchcraft
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TIME: Have you lost any friends? Menyoli: I have friends who have died, and I suspect AIDS was the case. But the bad thing is that people just say it is a conspiracy. When someone dies, they say, "No, it's witchcraft or voodoo...
...teach sex education and AIDS prevention. But most locals wouldn't listen to the foreigners. Many said that HIV was a lie or a conspiracy. Yet some of Menyoli's friends had died and "I suspect AIDS was the case," he says. "But people said, 'No, it was witchcraft or voodoo...
Despite the eerie resemblance of Hogwarts’ dining hall to Annenberg, Harvard is hardly a School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Here we cheer on the football team, not quiddich players–and Larry Summers is no Albus Dumbledore. Cheesy comparisons aside, after seeing the just-released Harry Potter movie, Melissa A. Eccleston ’04 “got the vibe that the whole storyline was very Harvardish.” Recalling scenes such as when Harry and friends leave home to go to school and features such as “houses” featuring masters...
...now—Harry Potter is only 11 years old in the movie and 15 in the books so far, so it will be a few years before Potter: The College Years is unleashed. Furthermore, students will have to content themselves with Folkore and Mythology 107b: “Witchcraft,” taught by Professor Stephen A. Mitchell, since Harvard will not be offering classes on Defense Against the Dark Arts. Unfortunately, midterms still take more work than waving a magic wand...
...fanatic Christian who seeks to warn the public about witchcraft, I merely despise the hype and licensing that Rowling has condoned while hypocritically proclaiming her support of literacy campaigns. Fans will argue that all this commercialism is actually good for everyone, that it reinforces reading and promotes literacy in a society of music videos and video games. But does it reinforce the desire to read per se, or just the desire to purchase more Harry Potter paraphernalia...