Compiled from wire reports by Steven Ellis
The News Review:
- Compiled from wire reports by Steven Ellis
- Noise fears over Harris statue plans
- Bush Routine: Early to Bed Early to Rise
- Disney’s Dinner Bell
- `Horrid Henry’ Beloved by British Kids Horrifies US Parents
- France considers return of school uniforms to banish fashion wars.
Compiled from wire reports by Steven Ellis
Christian Science Monitor – Jun 21, 2006
Pele led the way as far back as 1958 when as a 17-year-old his goals helped propel Brazil to the first of its five world championships. In Spain in 1982 Norman Whiteside of Northern Ireland became the youngest World Cup player at the age of 17 years 41 days. Now you see it now you don’tHarry Potter had one. The invisibility cloak worn by Harry Potter in the popular books by J. Rowling is theoretically possible say US and British researchers.
Noise fears over Harris statue plans
BBC News – Jun 21, 2006
“How many people are standing around his statue at nightcausing problems?”"The objections are completely unfounded because this is an area which is totally residential. Harris who starred in The Field and in more recent years as the wily head ofHogwarts School in Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone died in October 2002 at the age of 72. He had just finished work on the second Harry Potter movie Chamber of Secrets when he became ill. "We have the statue being made – it will go up in Kilkee somewhere I canguarantee you that" Manuel di LuciaFriend Mr di Lucia a cousin of Hollywood actor Danny DeVito said Limerick-bornHarris’s ties to the area began when he spent holidays there with his brothersduring his youth. “Everytime he came to Kilkee he brought an air of joviality to the town” he said. “He was very flamboyant very well liked by everybody. The statue which is being designed by Seamus Connolly will show Harrisplaying racquet ball – a game at which he excelled winning a competition fouryears in a row at the town.
Bush Routine: Early to Bed Early to Rise
Washington Post – Jun 21, 2006
Laura Bush must have felt quite at home on a visit to the Austrian National Library. One of the world’s foremost libraries it dates to the 14th century and was the setting for Wednesday’s round-table with 14 foreign exchange students. It resembles something out of a Harry Potter novel with gleaming wood marble floors gilded fixtures an ornate domed ceiling and ladders going every which way to reach the old books and manuscripts stacked on floor-to-ceiling shelves. After the discussion a white-gloved official showed them several library items including one that dates to the 12th century. President Bush appeared very interested putting on his reading glasses several times. In the rotunda a few steps over the Vienna Boys Choir one of the most famous in the world sang three songs as their American visitors smiled and nodded. Performance done Bush gave a sharp nod of approval before heading to the airport for the flight to Budapest Hungary.
Disney’s Dinner Bell
Motley Fool – Jun 21, 2006
Marketing the heroines of its animated classics has turned into a $3 billion a year franchise. Going from Belle to Bell won’t be as easy especially since audiences know little about Tinker Bell and even less about her fellow fairies but Disney could be well-served by going in this direction. The Lord of the Rings Harry Potter and Narnia have all whetted the appetites of fantasy fans. Even if the audience for Fairies overlaps with the Disney Princesses crowd Disney would rather hit them from both sides than let toy companies like Mattel (NYSE:.
`Horrid Henry’ Beloved by British Kids Horrifies US Parents
Bloomberg – Jun 21, 2006
'slargest commercial television broadcaster. Yet a unit of Scholastic Corp. publisher of the“Harry Potter'' books backed out of a distribution agreementlast year after American teachers complained Simon says. SaraSinek a spokeswoman for Scholastic Book Clubs which sellsbooks through schools says the company dropped the booksbecause they didn't meet sales forecasts.
France considers return of school uniforms to banish fashion wars.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 21, 2006
France considers return of school uniforms to banish fashion wars. (21-JUN-06) Europe Intelligence Wire.