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First of all, kids are reading them. And we all know what reading leads to...that's right, knowledge and an aptitude for the verbal section on standardized tests. Okay, maybe kids won't find the words poltergeist, Quidditch or transfiguration on the SATs anytime soon, but the Potter books have a larger vocabulary than most of the drivel that is published for children nowadays. Compare the Harry Potter series to the last fad in children's books, that formulaic series called Goosebumps, and you'll see what I mean...
...also the first time I have watched this team lose--ever. For those of you who don't glance at The Crimson's sports section often, no other beat writer has had that luxury since I've been here...
...Mart's world, there is accounting for taste. For instance, the video section stocks the risque comedy There's Something About Mary. And there's something in it that more than a few folks would find objectionable. Says movie buyer Eddie Tutt: "It's pretty crude, but [the movie] did $175 million in sales, which kind of tells you that most of the public looked at it and probably felt good about it." Which tells Tutt that unlike, say, Howard Stern's crude movie, Private Parts, which Wal-Mart did not carry, Mary will light up the cash registers...
...home that April Divilbiss has shared with the two men she calls her husbands, you drive south on Interstate 55 from Memphis, Tenn., and cross the border into Mississippi. Then you double back along a little road that winds into a forlorn section of Memphis again. It's not just two states but several states of mind you end up traversing. That's because the family album under the TV in April's apartment contains snapshots not of a happy couple but of a devoted threesome. And baby makes four...
Late-night study sessions are a staple of Harvard life. Overcommitted students spend their daylight hours scrambling from class to section to extracurricular activities, stumbling back home only to be confronted with piles of problem sets, papers and pain. All of this makes us hungry...