Regular Features (Arkansas News Bureau)
Huckabee's junk heap of secrets By John Brummett Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has found that former Gov. Mike Huckabee didn't violate state law on his way out of office by having his staff's computer hard drives crushed....more...Editor caught the Golden Snitch (The Cincinnati Post)
There are a lot of great things about being the Man Who Brought Harry Potter to America: You don't have to care about the latest Potter movie or the bazillion-copy print run for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" or the Harry Potter theme park scheduled to go into competition with Disney World as early as 2009....more... Wizardly editor caught the Golden Snitch (The Record)
NEW YORK - There are a lot of great things about being the Man Who Brought Harry Potter to America: You don't have to care about the latest Potter movie (which opened this week), for example, or the bazillion-copy print run for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (on sale July 21) or the Harry Potter theme park scheduled to go into competition with Disney World as early as 2009....more... The Accidental Chef: Spicing up a by-the-book potluck is no mystery (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
DEAR ACCIDENTAL CHEF: I'm in a book club, and everyone makes an appetizer for the meetings. We don't plan what people are going to bring, so we always end up with eight-too-many spinach dips, 7-layer bean dips and brownies. These are all fine, but the monotony is killing me. I've tried to gently suggest that people get more creative, but the next meeting only brings more bean dips. Do you have ......more... Lisa See's 'Peony in Love' (Austin American-Statesman)
Lisa See's new novel continues her exploration of the Chinese past. "Peony in Love" is in no formal sense related to her best-selling "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," or her memoir "On Gold Mountain," but it profits from the same sensibility and comes from the same pen....more... Uganda: Move Over Mr Museveni, Welcome 'That Chap There' (AllAfrica.com)
One of the very few special editions on Africa by a western publication that I have kept is the September 2005 one by National Geographic....more... |