The media mogul had tweeted out his opinions on “Moslems” after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris.
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Oh yes, dear bibliophiles, we’re talking real printed and bound paper pages here. How many of the following types of books do you own?
Wizarding experience required.
Require the assistance of skilled students to revert all transfigured objects to their original forms! Yes, ideal candidates DO actually need to have a rudimentary knowledge of transfiguration!
After you turn the cups back into rats you do also have to CATCH the rats.
£5/hr. Stop by Professor McGonagall's office with your resumé to apply.
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Male student needed to distract Moaning Myrtle so that staff can clean the girls' bathroom. Duties include: listening to feelings, heavy flirting, and an occasional bubble bath.
Must have good emotional intelligence! Pay commensurate with experience.
Warner Bros. Colin Heasley
Looking this good isn't easy! Help your favorite professor get ready to greet the day (and media!!) each morning by organizing / dry cleaning his wardrobe, going on hair-product runs to Hogsmeade, and generally living the life of a true ? !
Minimum Wage – perks include accompanying Professor Lockhart to important book signings in the heart of London!
Warner Bros.
Must maintain respect for the most noble of beasts while also discreetly cleaning up poop.
£5/hr. Protective gear provided!
Warner Bros.
Houellebecq, as well as his new book Submission, were featured on the cover of the latest issue of Charlie Bebdo. The book does not yet have a US release date.
"The predictions of the Great Houellebecq: 'In 2015, I will lose my teeth... In 2022, I will celebrate Ramadan!'" the translation reads.
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Houellebecq, a friend of economist Bernard Maris, who was among the 12 people shot dead on Wednesday, was 'deeply affected' and had decided to leave Paris for an unspecified rural retreat, his agent said on Thursday.
Via theguardian.com
The book, which Houellebecq described as "political fiction" in The Paris Review , imagines France electing a Muslim president in 2022, sparking Islamic reform throughout the country.
When reached for comment Jeff Seroy, senior vice president of marketing and publicity at Farrar, Straus and Giroux (the US publisher of Submission) told BuzzFeed:
"[Michel Houellebecq] is an important writer and we're delighted to be his American publisher. Our arrangement to publish is quite recent so with no translation yet commissioned, we wouldn't even tentatively schedule publication."
Now walk for months and months until you get to Mordor.
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These desert creatures think Cormac McCarthy might be their spirit animal.
"Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath."
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"We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless."
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"He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower."
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"How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it."
Seat belts and seahorses and cell phones have divided the BuzzFeed copy desk. We need you to help us decide how they should be written.
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A recent update to the Associated Press Stylebook, the so-called "journalist's bible," unearthed a previously unknown fissure in the BuzzFeed copy desk: the word "seat belt." According to AP, it's "seat belt, two words."
But a few of our editors felt otherwise: There were "very strong feelings" against the two-word variation, as well as talk of moving to BuzzFeed's London office, where British English reigns supreme and all bets on standard American English are off. So we're kicking it out to you, our readers, to resolve our issues, once and for all.
One stipulation for all of you nitpicking grammarians: Let's consider each of these options nouns — no verbs or adjectives. So, that said, how should we style these headache-inducing words?
Words working together to scare you.
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Such as...
-Orwell, 1984
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