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The week ahead
Chicago TribuneMonday: -- Earnings: Adobe Systems Inc.; Omnova Solutions Inc. Tuesday: -- Federal Reserve meeting -- August producer price index -- Earnings: AutoZone Inc.; Best Buy Co.; CBRL Group Inc.; Darden Restaurants Inc.; Kroger Co.; Lehman Brothers Holdings...Tags: Herman Miller Incorporated, Progress Software Corporation, Best Buy Company Incorporated, Federal Reserve, Circuit City Stores Incorporated
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Despite leaks, Harry's fans await witching hour
It was a plot twist even J.K. Rowling did not see coming. Days before Saturday's release of the eagerly awaited "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final installment in the British author's hugely popular series, news of the book's content...Tags: Harry Potter, Sales, Photography, MySpace, Book
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Amazon.com takes fight with rivals to several fronts
Tribune Media Services columnistQ: Is there hope for my shares of Amazon.com Inc.? I wonder about that company. -- L.R., via the Internet A: As it accepts a flood of preorders for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final installment of the famous series due out at midnight...Tags: University of Michigan, Consumer Electronics Industry, Personal Investing, Robbins & Myers Incorporated, Google Inc.
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'Just stick out your wand hand, step on board, and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'
Chicago is on the Knight Bus route! Scholastic Inc., the American publishers of the Harry Potter books, says three of our local libraries will be stops on its national Knight Bus tour this summer. The Scholastic version of the triple-decker, violently...Tags: Public Holidays, Harry Potter, Oak Park, Philosophy, Book
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'Aren't you two ever going to read "Hogwarts, A History"?'
Tribune staff reporterIt's "the literary club no author wants to belong to," says The Guardian, one of many, many British news organizations gleeful this week over a national survey about books people admit they've bought or borrowed but never finished reading. No. 2 on...Tags: Harry Potter, Fiction, Northbrook, James Joyce
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'... we feel our futures lie outside the world of academic achievement.'
Did you go to J.K. Rowling's Web site (www.jkrowling.com) and take your W.O.M.B.A.T. Grade 3 exam? She warned us this would be the toughest of the three Wizards' Ordinary Magic and Basic Aptitude tests she has dreamed up for us -- and this time points...Tags: Harry Potter, La Grange, Naperville, Fiction
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'How did you do [on your O.W.L. tests]?' (Ginny Weasley)
NO TROLLS HERE: "Just writing to boast about my Exceeds Expectations on the third level W.O.M.B.A.T. test!" says an e-mail from Lily S. of Deerfield, a member of the PotterWatch writers panel. "How did you do?" Well, despite our dramatic fears of...Tags: Harry Potter, Deerfield, Prisons, Networking, Fiction
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Publisher takes action against `Potter' leaks
The assault on the " Harry Potter" embargo continued Wednesday, as Scholastic Inc., publisher of the blockbuster series, revealed that as many as 1,200 copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" were delivered the day before to readers who bought...Tags: Harry Potter, Book, Fiction
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In-school trials of software can be easily influenced
Sun StaffLacking good research about education software, school districts often do their own evaluations. But their trials are easily influenced by software vendors -- or by administrators already inclined toward buying the product. A test of Plato Learning...Tags: Trials, Academic Progress, Prince George's County, Imperial and Royal Matters, Waterford
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Potter's latest already magic
Tribune staff reporterHarry Potter can still work his magic at the cash register. Hours after the announcement Tuesday that the sixth installment in the boy-wizard series will appear on bookshelves on July 16, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" shot to the top of the...Tags: The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated, History, Borders Group Incorporated (MI), Harry Potter, Sales
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Hoping for more 'Potter' magic
STAFF WRITERHarry Potter may be the most famous character in Scholastic Corp.'s stable of titles, but his magic has had limited power to steady the book publisher's rocky financial performance. Scholastic hasn't seen the kind of benefits that a casual observer -- or...Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, Earnings, Clubs and Associations, Inventories, Imperial and Royal Matters
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Harry Potter and the half-crazed mom
The New York TimesThe last time a new Harry Potter book was published, strict rules of conduct were established in my household. With a single copy to share, my two oldest daughters devised a plan to read it simultaneously. Each girl got the book for a five-hour period,...Tags: Harry Potter, New York Times, Book, Transportation, Amazon.com Inc.
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