If Blaze Zabini was a Muggled Wizard, he would have had time to study at an ordinary school before entering Hogwarts and would have felt all the "charm" of a soulless and impersonal classifier called the alphabet, used in almost any modern organization, including the educational one. After all, everybody knows that people (both wizards and Muggles) strive to make their lives as easy as possible, so they come up with such universal classifiers. Thus, alphabetical lists of students are widely used in schools in order to systematize data, simplify search and other conveniences...

After all the successes, 1984 was a failure for HBO. To begin with, the construction of new cable systems in important cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit and Baltimore slowed down. Another reason for the unfortunate year was that more and more people were buying VCRs, and the number of video rentals in the country had risen sharply. As the number of subscribers decreased, so did the company's revenues. All this has led to a change of management. Michael J. Fuchs, the new chairman of...