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...Harry's appeal goes beyond the children's audience. When asked whether she or her parents enjoy the books more, Alice responds with a devilish smirk and a giggle: "My parents like it more!...My mom always says, 'Don't you want to read Harry Potter?'" Indeed, in the Henry household, Rowling's books have created so much excitment that Alice's mother reports one family argument caused when Dad read ahead and finished the book before everyone else...
NATO has plenty more devilish details to iron out if the settlement plan is to work. The two-page, 10-point agreement left key issues unresolved, including sensitive questions of command. For weeks Moscow not only insisted on participating in the peace force but tried to place its troops in charge of Kosovo's northern quadrant, where many Serbian holy sites lie. Washington refused for fear that would effectively partition the province. Now the diplomats are wrangling over just what role the Russian troops will play and who will command them. Russia's proud military men oppose the settlement, making...
...strategy behind this extension of the NATO air war against Slobodan Milosevic has a devilish design: to break the spirit of the Serbian people by depriving them of modern conveniences. When military planners refer to "bombing them back to the Stone Age," this is what they have in mind: everything from bridges to television stations has become a target. Many Serbs are now living by candlelight, eating food that doesn't require refrigeration and sleeping--if they can sleep at all--with the uneasy knowledge that 0.07% of NATO's bombs do go astray. Not surprisingly, as the allied target...
...potential, these songs are often far too erratic and cerebral to liven up your next party. In the tradition popularized by Richard James of Aphex Twin, DJ Silver charts his sonic terrain with analog synths sighing and chirping over energetic beats. And although lacking James's technical brilliance or devilish imagination (DJ Silver remains faithful to standard house and breakbeat rhythms), DJ Silver's music is much more accessible. For people whose only exposure to electronic music is in clubs on Lansdowne Street, Don't Panic! is a suitable introduction to intelligent dance music. Those who can tell the difference...
...dust jacket bears an amazingly striking picture of author T.C. Boyle: rebellish earrings, a shock of red hair, a devilish goatee and those piercing green eyes. A compilation of his previous four collections of short stories (Descent of Man, Greasy Lake, If the River Was Whiskey and Without a Hero) plus a smattering of new stories, Stories holds in one volume the complete spectrum of Boyle's writing. The satiric and the strange, the touching and the tender, the stories always have one trait in common: Boyle's characteristically piercing view of humanity...