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Happily, a few chapters into J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which Scholastic Press published last September, our hero receives a letter via owl informing him that he is, in fact, a famous wizard and has won a place at the prestigious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And with that, the reader and Harry together are plopped down into a world every bit as fantabulous and vividly original as those created by C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl or, for that matter, George Lucas...
...persuade local judges to let them Adopt-a-Highway. "If somebody comes up with a bottle of Jack Daniel's in one hand and a shotgun in the other and says, 'Let's go kill 'em all,' I say, 'You're not for our group,'" says Jeff Coleman, grand wizard of the Royal Knights of the K.K.K. "We're just trying to serve the community...
Filip's songs are about the pains of growing up. In one, she adopts the voice of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. Awaiting the tornado of adulthood, she sings, "I'm not sure I’ am ready...
...Imagine a book that's as tall as a munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz" and twice as wide. A book so heavy that it takes two librarians to move it. Just such a tome rests quietly in the bottom of Houghton Library, a warehouse for unusual and delicate writings that hides many a freakish volume behind its upright exterior. This ruskie book puts "War and Peace" to shame...
...seems to like his latest incarnation even better than his years as a software wizard. "When I look up in the stars," he says, "I see a far more majestic picture than most people see." And who knows? Perhaps our descendants will look back from the next millennium and marvel at just how far Joe Firmage...