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...most expensive French film ever, with a massive release on 6,000 screens across Europe. It stars French cinema royalty Alain Delon and Gérard Depardieu as well as sports icons like soccer god Zinédine Zidane, basketball wizard Tony Parker and motor-racing legend Michael Schumacher. But the undisputed star of the show is the feisty, moustachioed comic strip hero upon whose adventures the movie is based: Asterix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Asterix Conquer Europe? | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...campus, the news of Rowling’s selection was met with surprise, both pleasant and not. That depended, in part, on one’s devotion to her seven books about the adolescent wizard who saved his world...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Dose of ‘Potter’ for ’08’s Last Day | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," dozens of restaurants and stores in Harvard Square stayed open late and posted Harry Potter-themed specials, Tercentenary Theater hosted a three-hour concert that featured the musical stylings of Harry and the Potters, and hundreds of Harry Potter fans, many in wizard costumes, lined up outside the Coop to purchase a copy at the stroke of midnight...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: J. K. Rowling To Speak at Commencement | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...recent years, Smurfs have had to endure online accusations that they were closet Communists, as they share everything in their idyllic village, wear the same uniform, and sing the same catchy song. And there is even a theory that their sworn enemies - evil wizard Gargamel, along with his mangy cat, Azrael - represent international capitalism. Peyo's family fiercely denies this and insists the stories are apolitical. But Peyo did use the Smurfs to satirize Belgium's endless language wars between French and Dutch speakers: in one album, he divides the village into two halves that fight over whether the term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smurfs Are Off to Conquer the World — Again | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

There's a reason they call it the "Firewall." From its inception, the South Carolina Republican primary was meant to douse the flames of political passion. The late GOP strategic wizard Lee Atwater designed the thing to give conservative Southerners a say in the presidential process and offer churchgoers a power line to the White House. Then he scheduled it right after Iowa and New Hampshire, the ideal spot for the party establishment to suppress an insurgent candidate's momentum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for the Party Faithful | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

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