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Ravenclaw Thoughts, Ted Talks

by EmilyR February 25, 2013 Leave a comment

Education is incredibly precious. When my grandfather came home from WWII, he was adamant on going to college. He used his GI Bill, got his books, and excitedly went to all of his classes. Soon into the semester, my grandpa realized it wasn’t easy to transition from surviving war to surviving class- he was already [...]

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Euro News Blog: Greece’s Escape Route

by Joana Petrova November 30, 2012 Leave a comment

The Greek economic crisis has been an important topic for the last several months and today the EU decided to grant them a loan of 40bn euro. One of the jokes that was in this morning’s paper was basically the following: Two Greeks are having coffee and one of them says: “So the EU is, [...]

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Euro News Blog: The Country of Catalonia

by Joana Petrova November 11, 2012 Leave a comment

As if the EU didn’t have enough troubles at the moment, they’re trying to present Catalonia’s independence campaign as another problem in the on-going crisis. The demands for a separation from Spain started months ago, but became more and more urgent in the past couple of weeks. Just a couple of days ago, the Spanish [...]

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In Which Felix Baumgartner Jumps from Space

by Anna Good October 16, 2012 1 Comment

For those who (like me) didn’t realize that yesterday was Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking free-fall jump from space, the Austrian skydiver has had this jump in the works for 7 years. He jumped from 25 miles above the Earth’s surface, the first human to break the sound barrier in a free fall. He also broke numerous [...]

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The Girl Who Lived

by Rebecca Havens June 27, 2012 Leave a comment

I still remember the visit to the hospital that should have chilled me to my core. I weighed so little that I was in danger of dying in my sleep. My pulse was weak enough that my heart could just stop when it slowed during slumber.

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The Not-So-Balanced News Media

by Amanda Bolton June 26, 2011 4 Comments

We all rely on some form of news media to keep us informed about what’s going on in the world; but what happens when news sources deliberately skew the truth? And how do we tell the ones that do?

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Introducing the new website!

by Kate Looby October 7, 2010 17 Comments

By now, you’ve probably noticed something different about The Harry Potter Alliance. We dusted, scrubbed, and sprayed all the doxies, and now in honor of the fifth anniversary of the HPA, we proudly present our brand new, beautiful website! Please, take a look around and tell us what you think of the new look. Post [...]

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Are You Ready to Party? HPA 5th Anniversary Blowout!

by Taekia Blackwell September 22, 2010 2 Comments

We will soon be marking the 5th Anniversary of the HPA, another great milestone for this organization, with a huge birthday party on October 10, 2010 – 10.10.10 – at The Center for Arts in the Armory in Somerville, MA. The party will have a great food, great friends, and great stories of the last [...]

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Acacia's Birthday!!!!

by Andrew Slack January 20, 2010 9 Comments

There is absolutely no way to describe or begin to describe what Acacia does for the Harry Potter Alliance. From putting in endless hours and unbelievable creativity around web and graphic design and web functionality, to also putting in countless hour brainstorming on how to make our projects most effective and innovative – there is [...]

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Join the HPA Staff!

by Taekia Blackwell January 19, 2010 Leave a comment

The HPA is currently looking for members interested in joining the staff team. If you’re interested in becoming a part of the HPA staff please check the volunteers page often as it will be being updated consistently. You can get there by clicking “volunteer” at the top of the page or right here. We are [...]

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