Potter is a lefty, says French philosopher
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Harry Potter is a left-winger and the seven books by J.K. Rowling are a diatribe against Thatcherite Britain, a French philosopher said Friday on the day of the last novel's publication in French.
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He runs Daily Kos, but liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas says he's no political leader. He wants you to argue about another great American pastime: baseball. By Ana Marie Cox from Wired magazine.
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PARIS  - Harry Potter is set to be immortalized in France with a set of postage stamps.
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Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed that one of her characters, Hogwarts school headmaster Albus Dumbledore, is gay.   She made her revelation to a packed house in New York's Carnegie Hall on Friday, as part of her US boo...
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A sinister development Scientists have been left scratching their heads with both hands, after research showed the number of left-handed people in the population has almost quadrupled over the last 100 years.â¦
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An insight into the great events in Ukraine over the last five weeks may be gleaned from an incident in the long life of Francois Marie Arouet, known to history as the philosopher Voltaire.
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French mail service La Poste is celebrating Harry Potter and friends with a set of stamps and stationery.
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A hacker going by the handle of "Gabriel" has claimed to have hacked the publishers of the "Harry Potter" books in London. He has posted the answer to the question of who dies in the last novel in a attempt to ruin the surprise for Potter fans everywhe...
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The France Football Federation (FFF) has asked Robert Pires to explain comments he made about new national team coach Raymond Domenech.
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With author J.K. Rowling's revelation that master wizard Albus Dumbledore is gay, some passages about the Hogwarts headmaster and rival wizard Gellert Grindelwald have taken on a new and clearer meaning.
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Arts & entertainment: Edmund de Waal challenges the philosophy of potting as functionalist and ruralist to turn ceramics into art.
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Pundits are wondering whether in reserving himself the right to say anything, Sarkozy hasn't started contradicting himself by uttering just about everything
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A revolutionary who fought for spontaneity over correctness JULIA CHILD, 1912-2004
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The last Harry Potter book is finally been released in France, with publishers still trying to keep the plot under wraps.
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PARIS -- A number of prominent leftist intellectuals have thrown their support behind Nicolas Sarkozy, the leading center-right candidate for the French presidency, buoying his campaign and dealing a new blow to the Socialist Party candidate, S&#xE9;gol&#xE8;ne Royal.
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As France's top diplomat, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner can be surprisingly undiplomatic. Having apologized to Iraq's prime minister for saying he should be replaced, Kouchner is now under fire for raising the possibility of war with Iran.