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...Quidditch World Cup (Electronic Arts, all platforms, Winter 2003) The latest game for Harry Potter fans, Quidditch World Cup pits national teams of broom-bound wizards against each other in arena-sized aerial pursuit of the ball and the game-ending golden snitch. One problem posed by the books-if the team that caught the snitch always wins, what was the point in scoring goals?-is answered here by a slight tweaking of the rules: each goal scores 10 pts, and the snitch is worth 150. And yes, you get to play as the lightning-scarred Hogwarts hero himself...
Throughout the winter, Republicans could point to Dean's candid and bracing performances on the stump and say, This is what the Democrats are really all about. They are the party of peaceniks; they mistrust the military; they are not tough enough to protect America. This analysis was both right and wrong. In February, Dean did set the Democratic National Committee's winter meeting afire, but the reaction of the party faithful to Dean was no different from the Republican faithful's wild enthusiasm for red-meat orators like Alan Keyes and Pat Buchanan in years past. Most Democrats...
...Arthur Ally, 61, president of the Timothy Plan, a group of eight "biblically based, pro-life, pro-family" funds. Based in Winter Park, Fla., and founded in 1994, Timothy has about $150 million in assets and roughly 12,000 shareholders. Ally will invest in no firm he feels is involved in promoting or financing abortion, pornography or "the homosexual agenda." He also shuns alcohol, tobacco and gaming stocks. (Military contractors are O.K.; even the Prince of Peace, says Ally, believed in self-defense...
...took up his current post last fall, vowing to clean up the banking sector, but powerful politicians thwarted his initial reforms. Takenaka retreated, seemingly having made yet another false start in Japan's halfhearted reform attempts. But like The Matrix, he reloaded. Takenaka toned down his approach and last winter pushed through accounting reforms aimed at closing some of the banking industry's favorite loopholes for inflating their capital bases?which is why Resona had to ask for help. And since the bases at Japan's other major banks are also dwindling thanks to a relentlessly falling stock market...
...affluent students pay for this vital storage alternative. The money could be apportioned on the basis of both financial status and distance of permanent residence from Cambridge. The College already uses geographic criteria to award similarly small amounts of aid to students from warmer climates who need to buy winter jackets for use while at Harvard...