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While Judy Blume has already risen to young Potter's defense, asking, "What's next, the Babysitters Club banned?" there are more practical reasons to prevent the censoring of the Rowling's tales...
Secondly, J.K. Rowling is practically the embodiment of virtue herself. A single mother on welfare when she wrote the first Potter book, she has rapidly risen to becoming the author of three New York Times bestsellers. And she's accomplished this all through her own persistence and ingenuity. Rowling is the Horatio Alger of our Gilded Age, never mind that she's from Scotland...
Prices of homes in Massachusetts have risen 233 percent since 1980, more than twice the national average, and Cambridge and Boston have lost over 20,000 units of affordable housing over the past five years, creating what Menino termed a "crisis in housing...
...Guarino has risen to the occasion in each of the Eagles' post-season games. Tallying four goals and two assists for 10 points in three games, Guarino has single-handedly vaulted the Eagles into the second round of the tournament...
There's some evidence that it might. In the month since Gore began rending his garments in public, his poll numbers have stabilized against Bradley's and risen against George W. Bush's. Americans tend to reward candidates who are hungry for the job--fire in the belly and all that. But if anyone can prove it's possible to try too hard, it's Gore. And if anyone can prove the counterargument--that a cool new paradigm is emerging this year--it may be Bradley, the candidate who seems not to be trying at all. He is too proud...