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For those of you are fortunate enough never to have experienced cystic acne, basically it's like a normal garden-variety zit, but bigger...

This is rather the quintessential red. It's very dark, in colour and in flavour, but it's everything a red wine should be. And you...

I ordered a particular dictionary second-hand from a store located in Ppoland. I did this because it's by my favourite foreign-language...

I don't think the title is quite accurate. Rather than how soccer explains globalization, this book is more about how globalization exp...

Leonard Cohen's First We Take Manhattan just popped into my head, as it often does, like much of the music my parents listened to on th...

1. I am very relaxed today. Also, I am wearing pants today for the first time in ages. I wonder if this is a coincidence, or if I'm j...

This wine tasted like the top and the bottom, but not the middle, of shiraz or cabernet sauvignon. It had some nice creamy undertones, almo...

If an outrageously small number of people enroll in a given class, like only five people or something, will U of T cancel the class? Or if ...

This is a perfectly decent mystery. It's one of those mysteries where you find out "whodunnit" before the detective did, but ...

I rarely agree with Margaret Wente, who is one of those people with the disarming habit of stating even the most sensible of points in a way...

The BBC has this fascinating test to determine what sex your brain is. My overall score ended up being exactly the average score for all w...

In an interview, JKR said that no one else at all knows how HP is going to end. I think this is too big of a risk. What if something happen...

It was mentioned in an interview that JK Rowling expects the next Harry Potter book to take about two years. In my real-life job, one of the...

Try singing the words do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do, in that order, to a melody that is not an ascending major scale. Bonus points for choosing a...

Bick's Polskie Ogórki have changed their serving size on the nutritional information panel from 3/4 of a pickle (which was just a stupid...

After I finished HBP, I was wandering around in kind of a stunned trance. I went to the fan sites, posted my thoughts, read other people...

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Harry is wrong. He seems to be under the impression that he's going to wander the world solo and hunt down the Horcruxes all by himself....

And now I'm even more upset about the idea that Harry might CHOOSE not to come back to Hogwarts.  That's just not right.    The ...