Word: pottered
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Harvard's real common ground this summer--the story that spanned major, gender, age and summer job--was not public service, activism, the Internet, the presidential election, or cell phones. It was Harry Potter...
...friends look up from The Goblet of Fire to report that Harry Potter is an escape: a nice easy read, a page-turner, a no-brainer. But the statistics point to something larger. Fox News reports that 43% of the Harry Potter books sold were bought by people over 14 who were not buying the books for a child...
...Haley Joel Osment, Frankie Muniz or Emmanuel Lewis. Much to the pleasure of a mildewing island nation, Harry Potter will be played by Brit youngster DANIEL RADCLIFFE. (If you're keeping score in such casting matters, that's--give or take--Britain 1, America 100,000.) Radcliffe, 11, told a London press conference that upon hearing of his selection as Harry in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," I cried, and I was just really excited." He has not seen recent photos of Macaulay Culkin. Radcliffe, the son of a literary agent and a casting director, has acted before...
...West have heard of him? Not too many, but in the early 17th century this man was to Japanese culture roughly what Leonardo da Vinci or Benvenuto Cellini had been to Italy a century before: a wonderfully versatile master of many media, renowned equally as painter, calligrapher, potter, lacquer artist and, thanks to his close relationship with the great shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the virtual "art director" of Buddhist Japan. No artist, Eastern or Western, was ever more authoritative within his own culture; and Koetsu's work was also identified with the tea ceremony, whose aesthetic principles--and even...
...press coverage, but it's small businesses that are leading the charge. In San Jose, Calif., the Graystone Elementary School has joined with Hicklebee's, a local children's bookstore, to hold readings by authors from Lynne Reid Banks (Indian in the Cupboard) to J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter). Graystone students display school projects in Hicklebee's windows, which draw their families to the bookstore. In Toms River, N.J., the staff of Silver Bay Elementary School gets behind the counter of the Yellow Brick Road ice-cream store one evening every spring and fall to serve up an ice-cream social...