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...Deathly Hallows is of course not merely the tying up of plot-threads, it's the final iteration of Rowling's abiding thematic concern: the overwhelming importance of continuing to love in the face of death. On this point, at least, we're not waiting for a new wrinkle. Dumbledore has been schooling us on this subject since Goblet of Fire, if not longer - when in doubt Rowling tends to err on the side of quashing ambiguity, both telling and showing when one would probably do. So we have known for a while that Voldemort cannot love, that...
...apartment he has hardly left since arriving in Beijing on July 6. Yuan, 30, a forthright homemaker from the coastal province of Shandong, won't venture out for fear of being kidnapped. As paranoid as that might sound, in Yuan's case it is a well-founded concern. Her husband, Chen Guangcheng, a lawyer and activist, was himself kidnapped by policemen from his native Shandong province when he visited Beijing in June of 2005. Chen, who has been blind since birth, is now serving a four-year prison term in Shandong, having incurred the wrath of local authorities by publicizing...
...dependence is worrying even some stalwart free traders. "In the globalized world of today, there is no risk if America, Europe and Japan stop producing T shirts or television sets," says Jean-Pierre Lehmann, professor of international political economy at IMD, the international business school in Lausanne, Switzerland. "My concern is that the U.S. in particular is far too overdependent on China, not just for goods but also for finance. So there is nothing wrong with the U.S. sourcing its consumables outside the U.S., but it is dangerous that so much of it should be coming from the same source...
...weapons to back it up - in exchange for severing their links to al-Qaeda. That's a manageable risk while U.S. forces are nearby; if they depart, it becomes tinder in a dry forest. The danger would be not just sectarian slaughter but outright anarchy as well. "Our immediate concern," says a senior Arab diplomat, "is that sending a signal of complete withdrawal could encourage some elements in every faction in every political group that they can now impose their own agenda. It would be not only Shi'ite versus Sunni ... but [war] inside each community itself. The worst case...
...Scot - as Chancellor signaled little in the way of change. But if Alistair Darling (no less dependable, gaffe-free, or Scottish) is unlikely to tinker too much with the Treasury, both men must be hoping the British economy remains just as reliable. And, right now, there's cause for concern. Rising gas prices kept inflation at 2.4% in June, above the government target of 2% and the E.U. average of 2.1%. Desperate to keep a lid on prices, the Bank of England pushed up interest rates earlier this month to 5.75%, a six-year-high and the fifth rise...