Word: witchcraft
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...litmus test in his district. And he can paint Barr as a man devoted to faraway causes. Kahn has made a lot of the fact that in the same fortnight Barr was chastising a Texas military base for holding a "Wiccan" service, one that a constituent complained promoted witchcraft, the local Lockheed plant in Atlanta, a major employer in the district, laid off 2,000 workers. "I don't mind a good fight," says Barr...
...books, and if this year is any predictor, the next 10 years won't be any better. The wildly popular "Harry Potter" series sparked myriad complaints; some parents maintain that the books, which follow the path of a young wizard as he learns to use his magic skills, advocate witchcraft. Numerous school districts have considered banning the series from classrooms, but only a few have made good on the threat. According to the American Library Association, more than 5,000 complaints were recorded at school and public libraries over the past 10 years. "The Catcher in the Rye," "I Know...
...Good Vibrations - Beach Boys 2. Witchcraft - Frank Sinatra 3. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams 4. Christmas Song (Chestnuts...) - Mel Torme 5. Bring Him Home - (from "Les Miserables") 6. Beat It - Michael Jackson 7. Basics of Life - 4 Him 8. It Had To Be You - Harry Connick, Jr. 9. More Than a Feeling - Boston 10. Desperado - Eagles...
...novel follows, in broad outline, the formula of the earlier books, rescuing Harry from some summer suffering at the home of the Dursleys, his dreadful Muggle (nonmagical human) relatives; transporting him and his two best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; and then exposing the hero to another threat from Lord Voldemort, the fearsome Dark wizard who murdered his parents but mysteriously failed to kill the one-year-old Harry at the same time...
...Nigerian police are investigating reports that a schoolboy was turned into a yam through witchcraft...