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Dear Nestor: Get a Clue

Dear Nestor, How can you tell if someone likes you? When do someone’s actions go from being simply friendly to more than friendly? Thanks for your help, Clueless Dear Clueless: To be honest, this can be so hard to tell. One thing

November 29, 2012

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Rita Skeeter Tells All

My dear readers, in my many years writing for you at The Daily Prophet, I have brought you many important biographies of leading personalities of our time, including “Armando Dippet: Master or Moron?,” “The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore,” and “Snape:

November 29, 2012

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Trelawney’s Tea Leaves: Reading the Future of Harry Potter

Harry Potter. It hardly seems possible to imagine a time when the name could be read on a page without conjuring (no pun intended) associations of bygone hours of enraptured entertainment for every reader, or even the casual film-goer. The franchise has

November 29, 2012

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Apparate to Paces for a Mind Fuck

With tears in his sometimes green, sometimes blue eyes, Josh McLucas ’15 related the sometimes tragic, often challenging, ever exciting process of creating “The Horizon (Line): Salvador Dali Fucks With You For An Hour In Paces,” the first devised piece by Swarthmore’s

November 29, 2012

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We Are at Hogwarts: An Imagined Evening at Swarthmore’s Yule Ball

No one knows where Swarthmore is except for the few who live, teach or are taught at Swarthmore, undeniable evidence that the school is actually unplottable. Our campus lies within the Forbidden Forest and we—forbidden to climb our carefully labeled trees as

November 29, 2012

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Life of Pi: The (Other) Boy Who Lived

About halfway through Ang Lee’s extraordinary 2001 movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, just as the pace is quickening and the plot is intensifying, we suddenly find ourselves in an empty desert. This is a flashback, but we do not yet know this.

November 29, 2012

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Giving Thanks or Why Can’t I Write?

It’s come and gone. No, not Thanksgiving — I’m referring to the yawning abyss whose arrival I fear with the very quarks of my being: a lack of ideas, an inability to write. Read along as I try to figure out why

November 29, 2012

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Bloody, But Unbowed

John Seaman’s life, as described in his recently self-published memoir, “Bloody But Unbowed,” is as eccentric as the man it captures in its pages, and equally defies attempted categorization. A self-proclaimed atheist, Naturist, nude photographer, recovering schizophrenic and Swarthmore graduate, Seaman and

November 29, 2012

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(Sex) Columnist of the Order of the Phoenix

Miss Columnist of the Order of the Phoenix, I seem to be having a dreadful dilemma. After six loving years of marriage to my red-headed delight of wife, I find that I am utterly incapable of getting it up. I was very

November 29, 2012

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Hot Diggity Dog: Phil Everson and Otis

Meet Phil Everson, Statistics professor, and his five-and-a-half-year-old mixed German Sheppard and Golden Retriever. “THIS ONE CHOSE US:” Phil and his wife, Andrea, decided to add a new member to their family two years after their previous dog, Miles, passed away. (The

November 29, 2012

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