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Technically a fictional sport—sprung from the pages of J.K. Rowling??s “Harry Potter” series—Quidditch earns the same designation as the two competitive dance teams, both of which straddle a curious line of their own. Instead of facing Quidditch’s problem of self-identification with the real or the magical, however, tension for the dance teams exists in their classification as either sport...
...Committee devotes itself to collecting reactions. “We try to take into account people’s response to the decision versus their response to the actual quality of the speech,” Arbuthnott adds, citing as an example students’ displeasure at writer J.K. Rowling??s stint as Commencement Speaker versus their positive reaction to her actual speech...
...offense against God.” (The spats tend to come off as amusing largely because the church takes him far more seriously than the rest of the world does.) Yet it’s hard to imagine Brown—or previous bête noire J.K. Rowling??creating a work of such potency as to produce the existential symptoms the Pope fears...
...sixth and third-to-last time, we enter J.K. Rowling??s enchanting cinematic realm of magic and mischief. But a new and sinister fog looms heavily over “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” From the film’s opening scenes, in which Death Eaters whiz by like toxic, black fumes across Britain’s bright skies and cause chaos throughout London, the malevolence that will characterize the rest of the Potter series becomes painfully evident. Although this installment works largely as a transition for the two-part finale...
...Since we had someone in the humanities/arts field last year–J.K. Rowling??it’d be good to have a governmental or political figure this time. Plus, I voted for Obama on the senior poll that was asking us our recommendations for Commencement Day speaker...