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...opening takes a while) Harry is tried before the Wizengamot—the Wizard High Court—which is considering expelling him from Hogwarts on trumped up charges. I’m guessing the Ad Board isn’t located in a dungeon-courtroom ten floors below University Hall, but its proceedings are cloaked in secrecy, just like the Wizengamot’s. Like evildoers in Cambridge, Harry stands with one advocate before a panel of various high-ranking wizards, who vote on whether to kick him out or not. Luckily the secretive proceedings go Harry?...
...most worrisome comparison for the Bush administration may be in the duration. Vietnam, after all, saw U.S. troops tied down on a distant battlefield for ten years. Although he did his best before the war to downplay suggestions by uniformed officers that an Iraq occupation mission would be long and costly, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz now appears ready to acknowledge that U.S. troops could be there for the next ten years, and will probably require the construction of permanent bases - and also that together with the Afghanistan mission, the Iraq security mission will likely cost around $54 billion...
...primary caregiver is." According to a national study conducted by University of Alabama professor Jordan I. Kosberg, heterosexual men (which would undoubtedly include fathers, at-home or otherwise) are routinely overlooked in social work literature. Of the thousands of articles, advertisements and book reviews culled by Kosberg over ten years, half the males represented in the study were gay, while the rest were divided among absent fathers, abusers, prisoners, AIDS victims and the homeless...
Eric Rudolph liked to think of himself as a great survivalist. And for more than five years, he managed to outfox a $24 million manhunt that included a $1 million bounty. The only alleged domestic terrorist on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list, Rudolph was a suspect in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta and bombings at a gay nightclub and an office complex that housed an abortion clinic, both in Atlanta, and at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala. His skills failed him early Saturday as police in the tiny mountain town of Murphy...
DIED. MARTHA SCOTT, 90, actress who originated the role of Emily in Thornton Wilder's Our Town onstage and repeated it in the 1940 film, for which she received an Oscar nomination; in Los Angeles. She also played Charlton Heston's mother in two biblical epics, The Ten Commandments...