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November 11, 2008

Harry Potter and the freezing Boks

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The News Review:

- Harry Potter and the freezing Boks
- On Sale! Harry Potter Years 1-5 Giftsets on DVD & Blu-ray (Nov 11)
- “Sherlock Holmes,” “Harry Potter 6″ Lead Warner’s 2009 Line-Up
- Why Are the Voters who’s Candidate Won Still Trying To Smear Sarah?
- Harry Potter magic comes to life

Harry Potter and the freezing Boks
Independent Online, South Africa 
One of them was Bakkies Botha, who with 100 percent vision restored to both eyes, watched his team-mates go through a mercifully short session at the Fettes College fields on the outskirts of Edinburgh. In another obscure record of sorts, the players were probably at the most expensive school they have ever trained at. This exclusive and ancient establishment looks like Harry Potter’s school and at ?50 000 (around R790 000) a year, it boasts among its old boys current Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor, Tony Blair. The latter took full part in the session, while Botha is one follow-up examination by a specialist away from being available for selection after his eye was gouged by a Welshman. The sun actually shone for the first time since the Boks arrived at Heathrow Airport on November 1, but the gale blowing in from the North Sea chilled observers to the bone. Later, back at the Boks’ hotel on the Royal Mile that leads up to the castle overlooking the city, Peter de Villiers said there would be no policy of rotation on this tour and that if a player came into the starting line-up, it would be a form issue (presumably also for the player making way).

On Sale! Harry Potter Years 1-5 Giftsets on DVD & Blu-ray (Nov 11)
DVDTOWN.com 
In time for the holiday shopping season: all five films newly packaged in super slim cases. Blu-ray Hi-Def set includes entire bonus content from the Two-Disc Special Edition DVDs packaged in new Blu-ray slim cases!"Pottermania" continues as the Harry Potter films are offered in a new Five-Disc HARRY POTTER Years 1-5 Giftset (on both DVD and Blu-ray) from Warner Home Video on November 11, just in time for the holiday shopping season. With the box office success of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Warner Bros. Pictures’ Harry Potter films have now become the top-grossing motion picture franchise in history (worldwide). Now packaged in new slim cases, the Harry Potter Years 1-5 DVD Giftset, available both on DVD (SRP $49. 92) and Blu-ray Hi-Def ($129.

“Sherlock Holmes,” “Harry Potter 6″ Lead Warner’s 2009 Line-Up
Philippine Star, Philippines 
Jude Law stars as Holmes’ trusted colleague, Watson, a doctor and war veteran who is a formidable ally for Sherlock Holmes. And Rachel McAdams stars as Irene Adler, the only woman ever to have bested Holmes and who has maintained a tempestuous relationship with the detective. “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. ” Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and Wizard worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching. ” Jim Carrey stars as Carl Allen, a guy whose life is going nowhere—the operative word being “no”—until he signs up for a self-help program based on one simple covenant: say yes to everything.

Why Are the Voters who’s Candidate Won Still Trying To Smear Sarah?
ireport 
Sarah served as mayor ofWasilla from 96-02. The timeframe for which Sarah supposedly askedthe librarian to ban the books was in 1996. Sarah made the commentin last nights interview as it related to Harry Potter being thebook that she was accused of asking to be banned. She said, ‘HarryPotter” didn’t even come out till 1997. If you look at the commentson Greta’s website regarding the interview, one person smears Sarah saying she doesn’t even know when sheserved in relation to the release of the book: 1997. Well to thatperson, Sarah had the issue with the librarian in 1996 and the bookwas not out in 1996, yet she is being blamed for asking for HarryPotter to be banned from the library. This pattern continues through every area that she wasaccused of.
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Harry Potter magic comes to life
phillyBurbs.com, PA 
Jabberwocky Books, a wholesale company based in Phoenixville, offered a large spread of books for sale at Flourish and Blotts, a station named after the store where the fictional wizards buy their books. Kyle Batezel, 12, got hooked on Harry Potter after reading the first book. The Log College Middle School student was all smiles after buying a T-shirt from Madame Malkin’s Wizarding Robes, a shop for wizard clothing in the novels. Money from those sales went to the Kyle Quinn Memorial Scholarship Fund, named after a 2006 graduate of William Tennent who was killed in September 2007 near the Kutztown University campus. Librarian Janemarie Cloutier, a Tennent librarian, praised the 50 high school volunteers who helped make the day possible. “It’s so wonderful that all of these kids came out.

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