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...Chapter 7 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Hermione is presented with a copy of a book called The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which Professor Dumbledore left her in his will. (Yes, he's dead. Sorry. Spoiler alert.) Because Hermione, like Harry, grew up in a Muggle family, she's never heard of the Tales, which are decribed as Aesop-like children's stories to be read to little wizarding kids. "Oh come on!" Ron says - he can't quite believe it. "All the old kids' stories are supposed to be Beedle's, aren't they? 'The Fountain...
...special place for Zwick, who paid a visit to his alma mater on Nov. 17 to premiere his newest film, “Defiance,” for Harvard students at the Brattle Square Theater. Zwick has always felt the allure of the film industry. “I grew up as part of a generation to whom movies were central to your experience of life,” he said. His time at Harvard encouraged this interest in film and helped shape the kind of director he would become. Zwick describes the many hours spent watching classic movies...
According to his data, the life expectancy in Botswana grew from 49 years in the 2004 fiscal year to 63 years this year...
...grew up in Southeast Michigan in the past four decades, as I did, you were raised among reminders that things used to be better, once, before you came along. The empty factories. The abandoned blocks in Detroit. The grade-school U.S. maps with the retro pictures, on Michigan's mitten, of Model T's and '57 Chevys. The headlines from the 1970s read like the headlines of 2008: The mayor of Detroit was in trouble. The Lions were losing. And the auto industry was disappearing...
Fisher is, as she puts it, a "product of Hollywood inbreeding": her mother is Debbie Reynolds, and her father is the singer Eddie Fisher. After her father left Reynolds for Elizabeth Taylor, Fisher grew up emotionally dependent on her mother, which presented difficulties because her mother was emotionally dependent on being famous. "I really didn't like sharing her," Fisher writes. "It seemed almost unsanitary."(See the 100 best novels of all time...