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They write with glee about my poor year last year--I was up 2 percent vs. much higher S&P results.
In each of these books--ingeniously structured around the cycle of the Hogwarts school year--Rowling manages to impart new information about the wizard world (and slyly fill you in in case you've missed the earlier installments, something that will become increasingly important as the series fills its projected seven volumes and sales figures mount into the trillions), to advance the long-term narrative conflict (about Harry's search for his origins, and his Manichean struggle with Voldemort, a wizard who's gone over to the Dark Side), and to create and resolve enough satisfying short- and middle-term conundrums to make the volume stand alone.
Speaking of Republicans, I'm emceeing that Congressional Dinner that you hosted last year--1,200 Washington bigshots in a hotel ball room, done up in black tie.
The first is the number of weeks new works of literature spent on the Times best-seller list in the past year--295, as it turns out, out of a total of 780.
The paper said that Blair had carried off a dramatic coup in negotiating the agreement last year--"he had the surest of touches back then"--but that "now, as the truly historic deal lurches towards the precipice, his own approach is increasingly confused and his credibility damaged."