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...species, incomes, national origins and developmental abilities. In a typical passage, Blaise Zabini is described as a "tall black boy with high cheekbones and long, slanting eyes." Would it have been so difficult to write a line in which Zabini takes the exquisitely named Justin Finch-Fletchley to the Yule Ball...
Besides, some significant parts of the way American Christians celebrate this sacred holiday actually don’t even have any explicit connection to the birth of Jesus. Rather, traditions such as Christmas trees, Yule logs, giving and receiving gifts, and possibly even the date of December 25 itself arose out of pagan celebrations that pre-dated Christ altogether. Meanwhile the figure of Santa Claus actually arose out of a Dutch folk tale that was originally unassociated with the nativity. So much for always keeping focus strictly on the reason for the season...
...community even though I don’t have that many friends. It’s just really a safe, nice place.”Senior Sarah M. Miller and her friends often went to Lowell’s Stein Clubs and attended the House’s Yule ball, which she says was “so much fun.”Christopher M. Ordoyne, a Tulane sophomore, even served on Lowell’s House Committee (HoCo) this semester. “One of the things I enjoy is the housing system,” he says...
...participates in the Triwizard Tournament—a sadistic series of tasks to win the Goblet of Fire—taking the viewer along for a terrifying ride including dragons and carnivorous caverns. Along with these visually rich action scenes are moments of awkward adolescent romance, such as the Yule Ball, an event like Eliot Fete on anabolics, replete with a rave-out performance by the paler members of Radiohead and Pulp.Humor keeps this “Potter” chapter from immersion into tonal darkness, much of it emerging in dialogue invented in the adaptation from J.K. Rowling?...
...Like Yule logs, mistletoe and roasting chestnuts? Well, a lot of people don't. As we head toward Christmas 2005, some cheeky nontraditionalists are already wreaking havoc, upending long-standing notions of Santa, Frosty and even the stalwart Tannenbaum...