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...Internet like a quaffle around a Quidditch pitch. (Radcliffe's role as an unstable stable boy calls for him to be nude onstage.) He also guest-stars as a comically bad-with-girls version of himself on the new season of Ricky Gervais' series Extras. What magic puberty hath wrought...
...judged by whether the U.S. can advance its interests without resorting to military force. But Rice hasn't distanced herself from the hawks in the White House, in part because Bush continues to identify with them. She has barely begun to address the damage to U.S. credibility wrought by Iraq or articulate a diplomatic strategy that might shore up U.S. influence and coax others to help contain Iraq's violence within its borders...
...illumination has often led to amusing and beautiful solutions, as can be seen in Art Nouveau and Art Deco Lamps and Candlesticks by Wolf Uecker (Abbeville; 280 pages; $75). Illustrations include color and black-and-white photographs of glass lamps by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Daum Freres, brass fantasies wrought by Josef Hoffmann and a lacquered wood-and-parchment floor fixture by Eileen Gray. There are modernist abstractions as well as familiar nymphs in flowing robes. Among the most delightful surprises: a bronze snail, its light contained beneath a shell of oxide-colored glass, and Emile Galle's magnificent lamp...
...difficult as Letters can be to watch, that fact might make it easier for Japanese audiences to embrace it. They aren't required to ponder the psychic cost of the battle on the survivors - few as there were - nor to wonder at the political mistakes that wrought horror from Manchuria to New Guinea. That's not the film Eastwood wanted to make, and that he chose not to takes nothing away from his accomplishment. But if he had, I doubt that Abe would have walked out of a screening calling it a "very good film" - and that $40 million gross...
...abandon in Rio de Janeiro. Cariocas, as the city?s residents are known, are on vacation, and with the Southern hemisphere's summer at its sizzling hottest, the two-month party leading up to carnaval is just beginning. But over this past holiday season, after a night of terror wrought by drug gangs who attacked police stations, gunned down law enforcement officers and burnt buses, the self-proclaimed Marvelous City was beset by a mix of fear and fatalism...