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Everyone kept glancing around at what the rest of the class was doing; this was both an advantage and a disadvantage of Potions, that it was hard to keep your work private. Within ten minutes, the whole place was full of bluish steam. Hermione, of course, seemed to have progressed furthest. Her potion already resembled the "smooth, black currant-colored liquid" mentioned as the ideal halfway stage.
Having finished chopping his roots, Harry bent low over his book again. It was really very irritating, having to try and decipher the directions under all the stupid scribbles of the previous owner, who for some reason had taken issue with the order to cut up the sopophorous bean and had written in the alternative instruction:
Crush with flat side of silver dagger,
releases juice better than cutting.

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At Beauxbatons," said Fleur complacently, "we 'ad a different way of doing things. I think eet was better. We sat our examinations after six years of study, not five, and then..."
Fleur's words were drowned in a scream. Hermione was pointing through the kitchen window. Three black specks were clearly visible in the sky, growing larger all the time.
"They're definitely owls," said Ron hoarsely, jumping up to join Hermione at the window.
"And there are three of them," said Harry, hastening to her other side.
"One for each of us," said Hermione in a terrified whisper. "Oh no... oh no... oh no..."
She gripped both Harry and Ron tightly around the elbows.
The owls were flying directly at the Burrow, three handsome tawnies, each of which, it became clear as they flew lower over the path leading up to the house, was carrying a large square envelope.
"Oh no!" squealed Hermione.

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her head almost imperceptibly, then resumed her own deadpan stare at the opposite wall.

"Enough," said Voldemort, stroking the angry snake. "Enough."

And the laughter died at once.

　　　"Many of our oldest family trees become a little diseased over time," he said as Bellatrix gazed at him, breathless and imploring, "You must prune yours, must you not, to keep it healthy? Cut away those parts that threaten the of the rest."

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out. We can keep out, if we have the resolute national will to do so. We can be of more service to Europe and to humanity if we preserve the vitality and strength of the United States for use in the period of peace which must sometime come. And we must keep out if we are to preserve for civilization the very foundations of democracy and of free men.Declaration of War Franklin D. RooseveltDec. 8, 1941. Yesterday December 7, 1941--a date which will Live in infamy--United States of America, was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.United States was at peace with that nation, and at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its Emperor, working towards the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.

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Winslet met her film director husband on the set of the movie Hideous Kinky in 1997. The couple were married in November 1998.In August the couple moved into a $1.17 million riverside home in southern England.
Like most nine-year-olds, Laila Banjar was spellbound by the latest Harry Potter tale of magic -- but she could still spot an error missed by proofreaders, editors and even author J.K. Rowling.
LONDON - Like most nine-year-olds, Laila Banjar was spellbound by the latest Harry Potter tale of magic -- but she could still spot an error missed by proofreaders, editors and even author J.K. Rowling. Banjar was reading "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" for a second time when she came across the glaring mistake -- leading character Crouch, who had gone missing on page 485, had made a sudden, and unplanned, reappearance.

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The storm caused Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating to declare his state a disaster area on Wednesday. Arkansas, still recovering from a fierce ice storm two weeks ago, appeared hardest hit, with highways closed around the state and 300,000 people left without power. In western Arkansas, newspaper offices closed down for the first time in their history and the U.S. Postal Service suspended mail delivery.The devastation was so widespread that Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee dispatched National Guard troops in all-terrain Humvees to search for people stuck in frozen buildings and disabled vehicles. Brigades of chainsaw-wielding civilians cleared trees from streets and houses, while displaced people headed for makeshift shelters.

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underscore the central bank's iron determination to keep the economy from sliding into recession, the Fed's Board of Governors also cut the more symbolic discount rate on Fed loans to banks by a quarter percentage point to 5.75 percent. It said it was prepared to cut that rate further to 5.5 percent if regional Fed banks requested it. Financial markets surged within seconds of the Fed news, and U.S. President-elect George W. Bush -- who has expressed mounting concern over the economy's prospects as he prepares to take over the presidency Jan. 20 -- welcomed the move as a much-needed dose of economic Viagra. However, the move did not dent Bush's eagerness to see his $1.3 trillion tax cut package pushed through Congress. It was the first rate cut between regular FOMC meetings since the autumn of 1998, when a global economic crisis threatened to seize up world financial markets.

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he is willing to face any inquiry in the matter. "This is a conspiracy hatched by opponents of my party. It is a politically motivated campaign,'' Laxman says. On Wednesday, four top defense ministry and Army officers were placed under suspension for allegedly accepting or showing willingness to accept money to fix defense deals. The government has made no official response, although the prime minister was due on Wednesday night to have an emergency meeting with senior government officials. Laxman's counterpart in the Samata Party, Jaya Jaitley, also featured in the tapes. He has not responded. An NDA spokesman says the suspensions were made after a preliminary inquiry. He added the ministry will take strict action against any other official if any delinquency of conduct is established. The scandal has set off a political storm, with the opposition calling on the

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Fourteen years later, when Suzanne Vega took the stage Friday night (March 23rd) at Hollywood's Knitting Factory, the venue, albeit much smaller, was again sold out. However, the circumstances are much different, as Vega is now a veteran performer attempting what likely will be viewed as a comeback, seeing as how she hasn't released a studio collection in the States since 1996's Nine Objects of Desire.Vega, who rarely plays live these days -- and plays the West Coast even less frequently -- explained early in this nearly two-hour set that she was in town visiting her father, who resides in Orange County, so she decided to do a couple of gigs to test out the new material. But it was an old favorite that she started off with; after taking the stage to a rousing ovation, she and bassist Mike Visceglia began the familiar refrain to "Marlene on the Wall," the superb lead single from Vega's eponymous debut. In fact, it took Vega six songs into the set to do the first test, with the lovely, folky "Penitant," a song whose deft wordplay recalled Elvis Costello. Vega seemed genuinely moved by the audience's enthusiastic response to the tune, as she thanked the crowd three times for their warm applause.

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The unique fossil also offers clues about why feathers arose in the first place. Oversized DuckThe creature is a dromaeosaur — a group of small predators related to the Velociraptor — which traveled on two legs. Since the creature walked and most certainly didn't fly, Mark Norell, chairman of paleontology at the Museum of Natural History in New York and an author of the report published this week in Nature, says the 2-foot-long fossil proves that feathers first developed for warmth rather than flight."This specimen really nails it," says Norell. Warmth, he says, "is what the origin of feathers was really all about." To the naked eye, downy impressions can be seen sprouting from all over the animal's body.

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Of course, not everyone's convinced. Hedges himself admits the response among ornithologists has been one of "disbelief." That was expected, and it's one of the reasons the researchers waited several years to publish their findings, which finally appeared in the July 7 issue of England's Journal of the Royal Society.And it might not even have appeared there if Hedges hadn't cleaned out his desk awhile back.Hedges collaborated for several years with the late Charles G. Sibley, a world leader in ornithology, who was also fascinated with aquatic birds because their evolutionary history is so vague. Research results frequently conflict with other findings, leaving the field highly contentious.Sibley was a leader in DNA research, even decades ago when most people knew

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Investigators are expected to make their report on the cause of the crash public by early next year. Officials have theorized that as the plane raced down the runway, it hit a metal strip that ruptured a tire and sent debris hurtling toward a fuel tank, triggering a fire and a fuel leak. The metal strip is believed to have come from another jet.Along with the safety improvements, the Concordes have a fresh look inside. British Airways invested $20 million to redecorate cabin interiors and Concorde lounges. On Air France, fresh lobster and petits fours will be served.Sting, who has been taking the supersonic jet for two decades, said he was "still excited about going on Concorde after all these years."Flying at twice the speed of sound gives you a buzz," he said.

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Sons and daughters should avoid show off gifts. It is only appropriate to give a very extravagant gift when it is truly an item that a father has wanted his whole life. Large gifts of this type are good to give as a family group gift then everyone feels part of this special gift.
The Olympic flame relay starts in Beijing June 9 - the fifth stop of the flame's around-the-world journey. Many roads were closed off and curious onlookers lined up to see what was going on ...
The Olympic flame relay starts in Beijing June 9 - the fifth stop of the flame's around-the-world journey. The Beijing leg goes from Tian'anmen Square to the Summer Palace. "Today, the sacred flame of the Olympiad brings brightness, courage and solidarity to Beijing," Liu Qi, president of the city's Olympics organizing committee, said during the torch-lighting ceremony held at the steps of the Great Hall of the People.

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At a time when the luxury goods trade is piling into China, Shanghai Tang, one of the best-known Chinese clothing brands, aims to spread worldwide with a doubling of its overseas stores...
At a time when the luxury goods trade is piling into China, Shanghai Tang, one of the best-known Chinese clothing brands, aims to spread worldwide with a doubling of its overseas stores.Vividly colored robes and the Chinese Qi Pao are part of its classic collection and are produced annually. It was part of the earliest offerings, a concept launched by the Hong Kong businessman David Tang. Shanghai Tang also plans to collaborate with kung fu masters, monks from Shaolin, to launch a Kungfu line.Now, 60 percent of Shanghai Tang’s market is in Asia, mostly in Hong Kong. The rest is evenly distributed between Europe and the United States.

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SCARLETT: Sherman will bum the house over our heads if we stay. It's all right, Melanie, it's all right. MELANIE: There, there.... little baby.. RHETT: Have you the strength to put your arms around my neck?MELANIE: I think so. RHETT: Never mind. MELANIE: Oh,Ashley..Charles! RHETT: What is it? What does she want? SCARLETT: Ashley's picture and Charles' sword, she wants us to bring them. RHETT: Get them.(They venture all the way. At last they are pretty near Tara. Rhett suddenly stops.) SCARLETT: Why did you stop? RHETT: This is the turn to Tara. I let the horse breathe a bit. Mrs. Wilkes...PRISSY: Miss Melanie done fainted way back. Captain Butler. RHETT: She's probably better off. She couldn't stand the pain if she were conscious. Scarlett, are you still determined to

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old and I was sister and mother to him both. Poor little lad, he was never strong, and he died when he wasn't much over twenty. Seems to me I'd have given anything on earth, Anne, dearie, if he'd only lived."
Miss Cornelia sighed. Gilbert had gone down and Leslie, who had been crooning over the small James Matthew in the dormer window, laid him asleep in his basket and went her way. As soon as she was safely out of earshot, Miss Cornelia bent forward and said in a conspirator's whisper:
"Anne, dearie, I'd a letter from Owen Ford yesterday. He's in Vancouver just now, but he wants to know if I can board him for a month later on. You know what that means. Well, I hope we're doing right."
"We've nothing to do with it--we couldn't prevent him from coming to Four Winds if he wanted to," said Anne quickly. She did not like the feeling of match-making Miss Cornelia's whispers gave her; and then she weakly succumbed herself.
"Don't let Leslie know he is coming until he is here," she said. "If she found

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eyes will be hazel and his forehead is exactly like Gilbert's."
"And he has the nicest little ears, Mrs. Doctor, dear," said Susan. "The first thing I did was to look at his ears. Hair is deceitful and noses and eyes change, and you cannot tell what is going to come of them, but ears is ears from start to finish, and you always know where you are with them. Just look at their shape--and they are set right back against his precious head. You will never need to be ashamed of his ears, Mrs. Doctor, dear."
Anne's convalescence was rapid and happy. Folks came and worshipped the baby, as people have bowed before the kingship of the new-born since long before the Wise Men of the East knelt in homage to the Royal Babe of the Bethlehem manger. Leslie, slowly finding herself amid the new conditions of her life, hovered over it, like a beautiful, golden-crowned Madonna. Miss Cornelia nursed it as knackily as could any mother in Israel. Captain Jim held the small creature in his big brown hands and gazed tenderly at it, with eyes that saw the children who

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surroundings--Miss Cornelia and Captain Jim would scarcely have recognized her; Anne found it hard to believe that this was the cold, unresponsive woman she had met on the shore--this animated girl who talked and listened with the eagerness of a starved soul. And how hungrily Leslie's eyes looked at the bookcases between the windows!
"Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph."
Leslie laughed--beautiful laughter that seemed akin to all the mirth that had echoed through the little house in the vanished years.
"I have a few books of father's--not many," she said. "I've read them until I know them almost by heart. I don't get many books. There's a circulating library at the Glen store--but I don't think the committee who pick the books for Mr. Parker know what books are of Joseph's race--or perhaps they don't care. It was so seldom I got one I really liked that I gave up getting any."

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surroundings--Miss Cornelia and Captain Jim would scarcely have recognized her; Anne found it hard to believe that this was the cold, unresponsive woman she had met on the shore--this animated girl who talked and listened with the eagerness of a starved soul. And how hungrily Leslie's eyes looked at the bookcases between the windows!
"Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph."
Leslie laughed--beautiful laughter that seemed akin to all the mirth that had echoed through the little house in the vanished years.
"I have a few books of father's--not many," she said. "I've read them until I know them almost by heart. I don't get many books. There's a circulating library at the Glen store--but I don't think the committee who pick the books for Mr. Parker know what books are of Joseph's race--or perhaps they don't care. It was so seldom I got one I really liked that I gave up getting any."

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you mind if she's stiff by times-- don't notice it. Remember what her life has been--and is--and must always be, I suppose, for creatures like Dick Moore live forever, I understand. You should see how fat he's got since he came home. He used to be lean enough. Just make her be friends--you can do it--you're one of those who have the knack. Only you mustn't be sensitive. And don't mind if she doesn't seem to want you to go over there much. She knows that some women don't like to be where Dick is--they complain he gives them the creeps. Just get her to come over here as often as she can. She can't get away so very much--she can't leave Dick long, for the Lord knows what he'd do--burn the house down most likely. At nights, after he's in bed and asleep, is about the only time she's free. He always goes to bed early and sleeps like the dead till next morning. That is how you came to meet her at the shore likely. She wanders there considerable."
"I will do everything I can for her," said Anne. Her interest in Leslie Moore, which had been vivid ever since she had seen her driving her geese down the hill, was intensified a thousand fold by Miss Cornelia's narration. The girl's beauty and sorrow and loneliness drew her with an irresistible fascination. She had never known anyone like her; her friends had hitherto been wholesome, normal, merry girls like herself, with only the average trials of human care and

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I -- I haven't decided yet," answered Anne, with a confused flush.
Phil nodded understandingly. Naturally Anne's plans could not be settled until Roy had spoken. He would soon -- there was no doubt of that. And there was no doubt that Anne would say "yes" when he said "Will you please?" Anne herself regarded the state of affairs with a seldom-ruffled complacency. She was deeply in love with Roy. True, it was not just what she had imagined love to be. But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it? It was the old diamond disillusion of childhood repeated -- the same disappointment she had felt when she had first seen the chill sparkle instead of the purple splendor she had anticipated. "That's not my idea of a diamond," she had said. But Roy was a dear fellow and they would be very happy together, even if some indefinable zest was missing out of life. When Roy came down that evening and asked Anne to walk in the park every one at Patty's Place knew what he had come to say; and every one knew, or thought they knew, what Anne's answer would be.
"Anne is a very fortunate girl," said Aunt Jamesina.
"I suppose so," said Stella, shrugging her shoulders. "Roy is a nice fellow and all that. But there's really nothing in him."

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than his ears. He is going to be a minister, you know."
"Well, I suppose the Lord doesn't regard the ears of a man," said Aunt Jamesina gravely, dropping all further criticism of Moody Spurgeon. Aunt Jamesina had a proper respect for the cloth even in the case of an unfledged parson.never worn the trinket. Tonight she fastened it about her white throat with a dreamy smile.
She and Phil walked to Redmond together. Anne walked in silence; Phil chattered of many things. Suddenly she said,
"I heard today that Gilbert Blythe's engagement elsewhere. She knew he was studying very hard, aiming at High Honors and the Cooper Prize, and he took little part in the social doings of Redmond. Anne's own winter had been quite gay socially. She Well, that justifies higher education in my opinion. It's a matter I was always dubious about before."
"But what about people who haven't natural
"Have you learned anything at Redmond except dead languages and geometry and such trash?" queried Aunt Jamesina.
"Oh, yes. I think we have, Aunty," protested

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It's all so delicious that I know we are going to wake up and find it a fleeting vision of the night," said Priscilla as they went away.
"Miss Patty and Miss Maria are hardly such stuff as dreams are made of," laughed Anne. "Can you fancy them `globe-trotting' -- especially in those shawls and caps?"
"I suppose they'll take them off when they really begin to trot," said Priscilla, "but I know they'll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn't be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure. Meanwhile, Anne, we shall be living in Patty's Place -- and on Spofford Avenue. I feel like a millionairess even now."
"I feel like one of the morning stars that sang for joy," said Anne.
Phil Gordon crept into Thirty-eight, St. John's, that night and flung herself on Anne's bed.
"Girls, dear, I'm tired to death. I feel like the man without a country -- or was it without a shadow? I forget which. Anyway, I've been packing up."

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And I suppose you are worn out because you couldn't decide which things to pack first, or where to put them," laughed Priscilla.
"E-zackly. And when I had got everything jammed in somehow, and my landlady and her maid had both sat on it while I locked it, I discovered I had packed a whole lot of things I wanted for Convocation at the very bottom. I had to unlock the old thing and poke and dive into it for an hour before I fished out what I wanted. I would get hold of something that felt like what I was looking for, and I'd yank it up, and it would be something else. No, Anne, I did NOT swear."
"I didn't say you did."
"Well, you looked it. But I admit my thoughts verged on the profane. And I have such a cold in the head -- I can do nothing but sniffle, sigh and sneeze. Isn't that alliterative agony for you? Queen Anne, do say something to cheer me up."
"Remember that next Thursday night, you'll be back in the land of Alec and Alonzo," suggested Anne.
Phil shook her head dolefully.

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2012年一季度巴西GDP初值10333.49亿雷亚尔，同比增长0.8%，环比增0.2%2012年一季度巴西GDP初值10333.49亿雷亚尔，同比增长0.8%，环比增0.2%

　　今年全世界经济都不好过，记得中国第一季度GDP数据出来的时候，台湾一堆吱吱高潮说增速降低到8.1%了。结果咧今年全世界都不好过，中国的8.1%还算是世界数一数二的增速了。

　　第一季度英国萎缩1%，美帝增长不到2%，台湾0.36%（新台币贬值，名义美元GDP负增长），三哥5.6%，本币贬值20%，名义美元GDP几乎0增长。

　　刚刚最新的巴西数据也出来了 哈哈 才增长0.8%， 足球仔够呛。

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"I don't know why they have to do it always," grumbled Davy. "Seems to me everything's put on the men in this world. Can I have some more pudding, Marilla?"
"You've had as much as was good for you," said Marilla; but she gave him a moderate second helping.
"I wish people could live on pudding. Why can't they, Marilla? I want to know."
"Because they'd soon get tired of it."
"I'd like to try that for myself," said skeptical Davy. "But I guess it's better to have pudding only on fish and company days than none at all. They never have any at Milty Boulter's. Milty says when company comes his mother gives them cheese and cuts it herself. . .one little bit apiece and one over for manners."

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and stuttered when he was frightened. Never did anybody look more guilty than poor Joe at that moment.
"Throw it into the fire," said Anne.
Joe looked very blank.
"P. . .p. . .p. . .lease, m. . .m. . .miss," he began.
"Do as I tell you, Joseph, without any words about it."
"B. . .b. . .but m. . .m. . .miss. . .th. . .th. . .they're. . ." gasped Joe in desperation.
"Joseph, are you going to obey me or are you not?" said Anne.
A bolder and more self-possessed lad than Joe Sloane would have been overawed by her tone and the dangerous flash of her eyes. This was a new Anne whom none of her pupils had ever seen before. Joe, with an agonized glance at St. Clair, went to the stove, opened the big, square front door, and threw the blue and white parcel in, before St. Clair, who had sprung to his feet, could utter a word. Then he dodged back just in time.

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Suppose a boy sauced you back when you told him to do something?" said Jane.
"I'd keep him in after school and talk kindly and firmly to him," said Anne. "There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher's duty to find and develop it. That is what our School Management professor at Queen's told us, you know. Do you suppose you could find any good in a child by whipping him? It's far more important to influence the children aright than it is even to teach them the three R's, Professor Rennie says."
"But the Inspector examines them in the three R's, mind you, and he won't give you a good report if they don't come up to his standard," protested Jane.
"I'd rather have my pupils love me and look back to me in after years as a real helper than be on the roll of honor," asserted Anne decidedly.