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- Rowling names last book in Potter saga
- Lawyer Disputes James Brownâ’s Marriage
- Holiday Gifts! Report yours here!
- Boffo box office sallies forth
- China’s Sohu.com to pay 1.08 mln yuan compensation in copyright…
- Alt Predictions for 2007
- Griffiths has history as Harry’s uncle

Rowling names last book in Potter saga
TVNZ – Dec 27, 2006
Kyle Good, spokeswoman for Rowling’s US publisher ScholasticCorp. , said they had not received a date for when they wouldreceive the manuscript nor when the book would be published. Rowling’s last novel, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,”was her most successful book in the US, she said, selling 6. 9million copies in the first 24 hours. But despite uncertainty over the publication date, book retailerBorders said it had started taking reservations for the seventhbook on December 8 and on Thursday e-mailed a link to its customersto sign up for e-mail notification when the book can be reservedonline. “Anticipation for this book has been building since the sixthbook was released in 2005,” said Borders Senior Vice PresidentLinda Jones in a statement. “We are sensing real excitement fromour customers.

Lawyer Disputes James Brownâ’s Marriage
New York Times – Dec 27, 2006
Brown’s estate
had been left in trust for his children, and that legal formalities needed to
be followed. Taking Bets On Harry Potter’s DeathIf Harry Potter is to die in the seventh and concluding volume of his adventures,
a British bookmaker is posting odds on the killer, who could be Harry himself
if the evil Lord Voldemort (played by.

Holiday Gifts! Report yours here!
pcworld.com – Dec 27, 2006
I will have to check to see if the Harry Potter game is available for PS2. I am a total Harry Potter nerd.

Boffo box office sallies forth
USA Today – Dec 27, 2006
“There’s room for all of them. May could easily be the biggest month of all time at the movies. ”
Add to that new installments of Harry Potter, Fantastic Four, Die Hard and the Bourne series, and executives say there’s reason to hope the three-year slump is over. “I think we might have forgotten a little about Middle America,” Woods says. “It’s easy to make movies that will be hits in big cities. But your success is going to be in listening to what all of the country wants to see. ”
That, and market a little smarter.

China’s Sohu.com to pay 1.08 mln yuan compensation in copyright…
Forbes – Dec 27, 2006
com Inc, one of China’s three main portal web sites, has been ordered to pay compensation of 1. 08 mln yuan in a copyright suit brought by the Fox network, Warner Brothers and 3 other global media companies, the Beijing Times reported. According to the report, Sohu. com (nasdaq:.

Alt Predictions for 2007
Wired News – Dec 27, 2006
“It’s only natural that Google would want to partner with such an internet powerhouse. That’s why we’re proud to announce Google Google, which will be in beta for the next 15 years. The record industry’s dubious prosecutions continue, as the major players file suit against several unlikely defendants, including a 3-year-old child, a whippet in Cincinnati, George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824), minor Harry Potter character Eloise Midgen and “the smell of fresh waffles on a Sunday morning. ” Most defendants settle out of court, but the smell of waffles vows to fight the charges. Aliens from the planet Rylos descend upon the planet and reveal that they gave Nintendo the technology for the Wii so they could train and recruit young people to fight in their desperate interplanetary battle for freedom. One brave teenager volunteers to fight for them, but the war is lost when the wrist strap on his starfighter breaks. President Bush finally manages to raise his approval ratings by recording a video of himself lip-syncing to “Barbie Girl” in makeup and a halter top with two oranges stuffed into the bust, and releasing the video onto the web.
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Griffiths has history as Harry’s uncle
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Dec 27, 2006
Which means, when younger viewers spot him, they often expect him to be, well, Vernon-esque. “Occasionally, when I am dreadful, (the kids) just go, ‘Yeah, that’s him,’ ” Griffiths said. The actor recalled a recent late-night encounter in a supermarket. Griffiths was shopping for some breakfast items, when the father of a sheepish 12-year-old boy approached and asked the off-duty actor to confirm that he was, in fact, Vernon Dursley.
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