Diet foods might cause kids to overeat Mon Aug 13, 12:34 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The diet sodas and snacks so popular with weight-conscious adults may backfire in children, if new animal research is correct.
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In experiments with juvenile rats, researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada found that animals that became used to diet foods tended to overeat during meals of regular-calorie animal chow.
This was true for normal-weight and obese rat pups, the researchers found. However, diet foods did not appear to have an overeating effect in adolescent rats.
This suggests that the foods have some unique effect in young animals, and possibly children, the study authors report in the journal Obesity.
They suspect that diet foods disrupted the young animals' ability to learn how various flavors correlate with calories. When they associate tastes, such as sweet or salty, with few calories, even a rich dessert may fail to fill them up as it otherwise would.
It's possible that children given artificially low-calorie snacks and diet sodas might not learn to properly regulate their food intake, according to lead study author Dr. W. David Pierce.
"One thing is clear at this point," he said in a statement. "Young animals and perhaps children can be made to overeat when calorie-wise foods are offered on a daily basis, subverting the body's energy-balance system."
He and his colleagues recommend that parents give their children a well-balanced diet of foods in their natural form, including naturally low-calorie foods like fruits and vegetables.
The findings are based on a series of experiments with young rats, both normal, lean animals and those genetically prone to obesity. Over 16 days, the animals were regularly given gelatin cubes that contained starch, as well as a starch-free "diet" version of the snack.
For some animals, the starchy cubes were flavored with an artificial sweetener and the diet version was flavored with a salty solution. These flavors were reversed for other animals.
After 16 days of this taste training, the researchers gave all the animals a high-calorie snack dipped in either artificial sweetener or a salty solution. They then gave the rats a meal of their regular chow.
Pierce's team found that the animals tended to overeat during the meal if their pre-meal snack had been dipped in a flavor they'd learn to associate with a low-calorie food -- despite the snack's actual high calorie content.
The phenomenon was seen in both lean and obesity-prone rat pups, but the heavier animals generally ate more than their normal-weight counterparts, the researchers point out.
So it's possible, they say, that diet foods could be especially detrimental in the children already at the greatest risk of long-term weight problems.
SOURCE: Obesity, August 2007.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Do Diet Foods Lead to Weight Gain?
Do Diet Foods Lead to Weight Gain?
Wednesday, Aug. 08, 2007 By ALICE PARK Lowered carbohydrate snack foods.
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Led by David Pierce, researchers at the University of Alberta studied the eating habits of young rats, and found that they tended to overeat when they were fed "diet" foods. Though the new study was conducted in animals, it adds to a growing body of research in humans that suggests a diet-foods paradox: the more low-calorie (or even zero-calorie) sodas and foods you consume, the more your body demands payback for the calories it was deprived.
Pierce and his team started with the assumption that animals, and young animals in particular, are adapted to crave high-calorie foods that are packed with fat and carbohydrates, the crucial biological fuel that rapidly growing juveniles need. Using classic Pavlovian conditioning techniques, Pierce trained his rats to associate low-calorie foods with a "diet" taste, and high-calorie foods with a different taste. So, when the rats were fed a high-calorie food that had been flavored with the diet taste, their brains assumed that their bodies were running low on calories. These animals then overate at their next meal in an effort to refuel and make up for the lost energy. "Animals have the ability to sense the caloric value of food they take in," says Pierce. "We found out that an animal can learn to use flavors to predict calories in an attempt to achieve energy balance."
This same phenomenon could explain similar results in recent studies of dieters, says Pierce. Two years ago, scientists at the University of Texas reported in an eight-year study that for every can of diet soda that a person drank, he raised his risk of being overweight by 41%, compared to a 30% increase in drinkers of regular, sugared drinks. Earlier this year, another study of diet-soda drinkers came to a similar conclusion, this time about metabolic syndrome, the dangerous constellation of risk factors, such as obesity, high cholesterol and insulin resistance, that increases the likelihood of heart disease. In this report, part of the 60-year-old Framingham Heart Study, researchers found that soda drinkers, regardless of whether they consumed diet or regular beverages, had a 48% higher risk of metabolic syndrome than non-soda drinkers.
At the time, even the study authors conceded that it was impossible to implicate diet drinks completely, since it's possible that those who drank low-calorie beverages were already overweight or at higher risk of metabolic syndrome, and chose the diet drinks in an effort to get healthier. But Pierce's work hints that a more basic, biological mechanism may be at work. The animals in his study were able to predict the amount of calories in a food based on taste, demonstrating that the body uses cues like taste and texture to make sure it's getting enough fuel. Just as Pierce's rats were fooled into thinking they hadn't absorbed enough calories after eating diet chow, people are preprogrammed to anticipate sugary, high-calorie fulfillment when drinking a soda or noshing on a sweet-tasting snack. So, the diet versions of these foods may leave them unsatisfied, driving them to eat more to make up the difference.
All of this emerging work could make the food and beverage industry, which has invested billions in diet and low-calorie versions of almost every food imaginable, a bit uneasy. "This study simply defies common sense," wrote Dr. Richard Adamson, scientific consultant to the American Beverage Association, in a prepared statement responding to the study. "To suggest that foods and beverages with zero calories contribute to weight gain contradicts the overwhelming body of scientific evidence that supports that they can help you reduce calories and maintain a healthy weight."
Dr. Ramachandran Vasan, lead author of the Framingham study, however, notes, "A zero-calorie drink could produce a metabolic response if it is sweet. It can condition you to develop a preference for sweet things, which can lead to weight gain or metabolic syndrome. So something that is sweet could produce a metabolic effect even if it doesn't have a whole lot of calories.
"
Of course, none of the studies has yet proved that diet foods or beverages actually cause weight gain or heart disease; they have merely found an intriguing association, which scientists are still trying to explain. Well, nobody ever said counting calories was easy.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650860,00.html
Wednesday, Aug. 08, 2007 By ALICE PARK Lowered carbohydrate snack foods.
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Led by David Pierce, researchers at the University of Alberta studied the eating habits of young rats, and found that they tended to overeat when they were fed "diet" foods. Though the new study was conducted in animals, it adds to a growing body of research in humans that suggests a diet-foods paradox: the more low-calorie (or even zero-calorie) sodas and foods you consume, the more your body demands payback for the calories it was deprived.
Pierce and his team started with the assumption that animals, and young animals in particular, are adapted to crave high-calorie foods that are packed with fat and carbohydrates, the crucial biological fuel that rapidly growing juveniles need. Using classic Pavlovian conditioning techniques, Pierce trained his rats to associate low-calorie foods with a "diet" taste, and high-calorie foods with a different taste. So, when the rats were fed a high-calorie food that had been flavored with the diet taste, their brains assumed that their bodies were running low on calories. These animals then overate at their next meal in an effort to refuel and make up for the lost energy. "Animals have the ability to sense the caloric value of food they take in," says Pierce. "We found out that an animal can learn to use flavors to predict calories in an attempt to achieve energy balance."
This same phenomenon could explain similar results in recent studies of dieters, says Pierce. Two years ago, scientists at the University of Texas reported in an eight-year study that for every can of diet soda that a person drank, he raised his risk of being overweight by 41%, compared to a 30% increase in drinkers of regular, sugared drinks. Earlier this year, another study of diet-soda drinkers came to a similar conclusion, this time about metabolic syndrome, the dangerous constellation of risk factors, such as obesity, high cholesterol and insulin resistance, that increases the likelihood of heart disease. In this report, part of the 60-year-old Framingham Heart Study, researchers found that soda drinkers, regardless of whether they consumed diet or regular beverages, had a 48% higher risk of metabolic syndrome than non-soda drinkers.
At the time, even the study authors conceded that it was impossible to implicate diet drinks completely, since it's possible that those who drank low-calorie beverages were already overweight or at higher risk of metabolic syndrome, and chose the diet drinks in an effort to get healthier. But Pierce's work hints that a more basic, biological mechanism may be at work. The animals in his study were able to predict the amount of calories in a food based on taste, demonstrating that the body uses cues like taste and texture to make sure it's getting enough fuel. Just as Pierce's rats were fooled into thinking they hadn't absorbed enough calories after eating diet chow, people are preprogrammed to anticipate sugary, high-calorie fulfillment when drinking a soda or noshing on a sweet-tasting snack. So, the diet versions of these foods may leave them unsatisfied, driving them to eat more to make up the difference.
All of this emerging work could make the food and beverage industry, which has invested billions in diet and low-calorie versions of almost every food imaginable, a bit uneasy. "This study simply defies common sense," wrote Dr. Richard Adamson, scientific consultant to the American Beverage Association, in a prepared statement responding to the study. "To suggest that foods and beverages with zero calories contribute to weight gain contradicts the overwhelming body of scientific evidence that supports that they can help you reduce calories and maintain a healthy weight."
Dr. Ramachandran Vasan, lead author of the Framingham study, however, notes, "A zero-calorie drink could produce a metabolic response if it is sweet. It can condition you to develop a preference for sweet things, which can lead to weight gain or metabolic syndrome. So something that is sweet could produce a metabolic effect even if it doesn't have a whole lot of calories.
"
Of course, none of the studies has yet proved that diet foods or beverages actually cause weight gain or heart disease; they have merely found an intriguing association, which scientists are still trying to explain. Well, nobody ever said counting calories was easy.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650860,00.html
Friday, August 10, 2007
Be Yourselves, Girls, Order the Rib-Eye
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By ALLEN SALKIN
Published: August 9, 2007
MARTHA FLACH mentioned meat twice in her Match.com profile: “I love architecture, The New Yorker, dogs ... steak for two and the Sunday puzzle.”
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Christopher Smith for The New York Times
IT’S WHAT’S FOR DINNER Ashley Draughon and Fred Graham dine on red meat at Quality Meats.
She was seeking, she added, “a smart, funny, kind man who owns a suit (but isn’t one) ... and loves red wine and a big steak.”
The repetition worked. On her first date with Austin Wilkie, they ate steak frites. A year later, after burgers at the Corner Bistro in Greenwich Village, he proposed. This March, the rehearsal dinner was at Keens Steakhouse on West 36th Street, and the wedding menu included mini-cheeseburgers and more steak.
Ms. Wilkie was a vegetarian in her teens, and even wore a “Meat Is Murder” T-shirt. But by her 30s, she had started eating cow. By the time she placed the personal ad, she had come to realize that ordering steak on a first date had the potential to sate appetites not only of the stomach but of the heart.
Red meat sent a message that she was “unpretentious and down to earth and unneurotic,” she said, “that I’m not obsessed with my weight even though I’m thin, and I don’t have any food issues.” She added, “In terms of the burgers, it said I’m a cheap date, low maintenance.”
Salad, it seems, is out. Gusto, medium rare, is in.
Restaurateurs and veterans of the dating scene say that for many women, meat is no longer murder. Instead, meat is strategy. “I’ve been shocked at the number of women actually ordering steak,” said Michael Stillman, vice president of concept development for the Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group, which opened the restaurant Quality Meats in April 2006 on West 58th Street. He said Quality Meats’ contemporary design and menu, including extensive seafood offerings, were designed to attract more women than a traditional steakhouse. “But the meat is appealing to them, much more than what I saw two or three years ago at our other restaurants,” Mr. Stillman said. “They are going for our bone-in sirloin and our cowboy-cut rib steak.”
In an earlier era, conventional dating wisdom for women was to eat something at home alone before a date, and then in company order a light dinner to portray oneself as dainty and ladylike. For some women, that is still the practice. “It’s better not to have a jalapeño fajita plate, especially on the first date,” said Andrea Bey, 28, who sells video surveillance equipment in Irving, Tex., and describes herself as “curvy.” “You don’t want to be labeled as ‘princess gassy’ on the first date.”
But others, especially those who are thin, say ordering a salad displays an unappealing mousiness.
“It seems wimpy, insipid, childish,” said Michelle Heller, 34, a copy editor at TV Guide. “I don’t want to be considered vapid and uninteresting.”
Ordering meat, on the other hand, is a declarative statement, something along the lines of “I am woman, hear me chew.”
In fact, red meat on a date has become such an effective statement of self-acceptance that even a vegetarian like Sloane Crosley, a publicist at Random House, sometimes longs to order a burger.
“Being a vegetarian puts you at a disadvantage,” Ms. Crosley said. “You’re in the most basic category of finicky. Even women who order chicken, it isn’t enough.” She said she has thought of ordering shots of Jägermeister, famous for its frat boy associations, to prove that she is “a guy’s girl.”
“Everyone wants to be the girl who drinks the beer and eats the steak and looks like Kate Hudson,” Ms. Crosley, 28, said.
Not all red meat, apparently, is equal in the dating world. The mediums of steak and hamburger each send a different message. Dropping into conversation the fact that steaks of Kobe beef come from Wagyu cattle, but that not all steaks sold as Wagyu are Kobe beef, demonstrates one’s worldliness, said Gabriella Gershenson, a dining editor at Time Out New York. It holds the same currency today that being able to name Hemingway’s four wives held in an earlier era.
Hamburgers, she added, say you are down-to-earth, which is why women rarely order those deluxe hamburgers priced as high as a porterhouse.
“They’re created for men who want to impress women, so they order the $60 burger, then they let the woman taste it,” Ms. Gershenson said. “The man gets to show off his expertise and show that he can afford it.”
When Paris Hilton was arrested for driving under the influence, she announced that she had been on her way to In-N-Out Burger, the Southern California chain revered for its gut-busting Double-Double, as if trying to satisfy a craving for two slabs of meat and cheese was an excuse for drunken driving that anyone could understand. And twice last year, Nicole Richie, persistently facing rumors that she suffered from an eating disorder, was photographed biting into burgers in Los Angeles, an effort that seemed designed to demonstrate her casualness toward calories.
Of course, there are always those rare women who order what they want and to heck with what a man might think.
Saehee Hwang, 30, a production director at Artnet.com, found herself out with friends at DuMont restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when she started feeling attracted to a new guy in the group. She said she had wanted to order a burger, but started having second thoughts. “I didn’t want to appear too much of a carnivore,” she said. “It might be off-putting.”
But then she decided she should not change her order to fit a preconceived idea of what a man might want. She ordered the house specialty, a half-pound of beef on a toasted brioche bun with Gruyère cheese. “We started dating afterward,” Ms. Hwang said. “And he told me he liked the fact that I ordered the burger.”
What about when the tables, so to speak, are reversed? Can a man order a juicy New York strip on the first date and make a good impression? Gentlemen, be careful. Real men, it seems, must eat kale.
“When a guy sits down and eats something fatty and big, you wonder if they eat like that all the time,” said Brice Gaillard, a freelance design writer. “It crosses my mind they’ll probably die early.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/fashion/09STEAK.html?em&ex=1186891200&en=0f071a218bdbe24c&ei=5087%0A
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By ALLEN SALKIN
Published: August 9, 2007
MARTHA FLACH mentioned meat twice in her Match.com profile: “I love architecture, The New Yorker, dogs ... steak for two and the Sunday puzzle.”
Skip to next paragraph
Christopher Smith for The New York Times
IT’S WHAT’S FOR DINNER Ashley Draughon and Fred Graham dine on red meat at Quality Meats.
She was seeking, she added, “a smart, funny, kind man who owns a suit (but isn’t one) ... and loves red wine and a big steak.”
The repetition worked. On her first date with Austin Wilkie, they ate steak frites. A year later, after burgers at the Corner Bistro in Greenwich Village, he proposed. This March, the rehearsal dinner was at Keens Steakhouse on West 36th Street, and the wedding menu included mini-cheeseburgers and more steak.
Ms. Wilkie was a vegetarian in her teens, and even wore a “Meat Is Murder” T-shirt. But by her 30s, she had started eating cow. By the time she placed the personal ad, she had come to realize that ordering steak on a first date had the potential to sate appetites not only of the stomach but of the heart.
Red meat sent a message that she was “unpretentious and down to earth and unneurotic,” she said, “that I’m not obsessed with my weight even though I’m thin, and I don’t have any food issues.” She added, “In terms of the burgers, it said I’m a cheap date, low maintenance.”
Salad, it seems, is out. Gusto, medium rare, is in.
Restaurateurs and veterans of the dating scene say that for many women, meat is no longer murder. Instead, meat is strategy. “I’ve been shocked at the number of women actually ordering steak,” said Michael Stillman, vice president of concept development for the Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group, which opened the restaurant Quality Meats in April 2006 on West 58th Street. He said Quality Meats’ contemporary design and menu, including extensive seafood offerings, were designed to attract more women than a traditional steakhouse. “But the meat is appealing to them, much more than what I saw two or three years ago at our other restaurants,” Mr. Stillman said. “They are going for our bone-in sirloin and our cowboy-cut rib steak.”
In an earlier era, conventional dating wisdom for women was to eat something at home alone before a date, and then in company order a light dinner to portray oneself as dainty and ladylike. For some women, that is still the practice. “It’s better not to have a jalapeño fajita plate, especially on the first date,” said Andrea Bey, 28, who sells video surveillance equipment in Irving, Tex., and describes herself as “curvy.” “You don’t want to be labeled as ‘princess gassy’ on the first date.”
But others, especially those who are thin, say ordering a salad displays an unappealing mousiness.
“It seems wimpy, insipid, childish,” said Michelle Heller, 34, a copy editor at TV Guide. “I don’t want to be considered vapid and uninteresting.”
Ordering meat, on the other hand, is a declarative statement, something along the lines of “I am woman, hear me chew.”
In fact, red meat on a date has become such an effective statement of self-acceptance that even a vegetarian like Sloane Crosley, a publicist at Random House, sometimes longs to order a burger.
“Being a vegetarian puts you at a disadvantage,” Ms. Crosley said. “You’re in the most basic category of finicky. Even women who order chicken, it isn’t enough.” She said she has thought of ordering shots of Jägermeister, famous for its frat boy associations, to prove that she is “a guy’s girl.”
“Everyone wants to be the girl who drinks the beer and eats the steak and looks like Kate Hudson,” Ms. Crosley, 28, said.
Not all red meat, apparently, is equal in the dating world. The mediums of steak and hamburger each send a different message. Dropping into conversation the fact that steaks of Kobe beef come from Wagyu cattle, but that not all steaks sold as Wagyu are Kobe beef, demonstrates one’s worldliness, said Gabriella Gershenson, a dining editor at Time Out New York. It holds the same currency today that being able to name Hemingway’s four wives held in an earlier era.
Hamburgers, she added, say you are down-to-earth, which is why women rarely order those deluxe hamburgers priced as high as a porterhouse.
“They’re created for men who want to impress women, so they order the $60 burger, then they let the woman taste it,” Ms. Gershenson said. “The man gets to show off his expertise and show that he can afford it.”
When Paris Hilton was arrested for driving under the influence, she announced that she had been on her way to In-N-Out Burger, the Southern California chain revered for its gut-busting Double-Double, as if trying to satisfy a craving for two slabs of meat and cheese was an excuse for drunken driving that anyone could understand. And twice last year, Nicole Richie, persistently facing rumors that she suffered from an eating disorder, was photographed biting into burgers in Los Angeles, an effort that seemed designed to demonstrate her casualness toward calories.
Of course, there are always those rare women who order what they want and to heck with what a man might think.
Saehee Hwang, 30, a production director at Artnet.com, found herself out with friends at DuMont restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when she started feeling attracted to a new guy in the group. She said she had wanted to order a burger, but started having second thoughts. “I didn’t want to appear too much of a carnivore,” she said. “It might be off-putting.”
But then she decided she should not change her order to fit a preconceived idea of what a man might want. She ordered the house specialty, a half-pound of beef on a toasted brioche bun with Gruyère cheese. “We started dating afterward,” Ms. Hwang said. “And he told me he liked the fact that I ordered the burger.”
What about when the tables, so to speak, are reversed? Can a man order a juicy New York strip on the first date and make a good impression? Gentlemen, be careful. Real men, it seems, must eat kale.
“When a guy sits down and eats something fatty and big, you wonder if they eat like that all the time,” said Brice Gaillard, a freelance design writer. “It crosses my mind they’ll probably die early.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/fashion/09STEAK.html?em&ex=1186891200&en=0f071a218bdbe24c&ei=5087%0A
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
新花木兰 》 剧情介绍！！！
第一集
隋朝末年，突厥入侵，千夫长花弧勇战受伤，解甲归田。妻田氏怀胎十月，夫妻二人渴望生男，继后香火，岂料竟又是个女儿，花弧 大失所望，田氏对木兰更生厌恶。木兰长大，性格豪爽，不拘小节，常惹麻烦，花弧常为其 婚事烦恼。 灶神稣吉利躲懒好吃，木兰出言偌侮辱，稣吉利怀恨在心，向 玉帝诬陷木兰，差点使木兰丧命。 木兰与好友余承恩久别重逢，却不料承恩奉命征兵，花弧也在 名策之中，木兰不忍老父年老体衰，决定代父从军。
第二集
王母欣赏木兰志比天高，与玉帝打赌木兰必能出人投地，并命稣吉利下凡助木兰建功立业，但玉帝却暗叫稣吉利从中破坏，使他左右为难。 木兰往军营报到途中，与将军李亮结下梁子，不料李亮负责训练新兵，与木兰狭路相逢，木兰被编入伙头军，以为李亮公报私仇，二人仇怨更深。木兰找承恩相助，向元帅李崇举她。岂料稣吉利从中搞鬼。使木兰当场出丑。
第三集
稣吉利为使木兰知难而退，在伙食中暗放泻药，士兵苦不堪言，个个对着木兰大骂。李亮罚木兰打三百板子，打得她死去活来，稣吉利乘机劝说木兰放弃，但木兰不肯。 突劂可汗之弟铁勒混入军营，刺探隋军虚实，但为木兰发觉，铁勒终为李亮所擒，李崇本要把他处死，但李亮欣赏铁勒是个汉子，把他放了。
第四集
李亮舅父徐富贵贪财成性，欲包揽军营内 的采购生意，不异带妓女入军讨好相关人等。此事为木兰所知，并告之余承恩，承恩本就和李亮不和，正想大与问罪，稣吉利向二人施以法术，使李亮以为妓女是木兰带来的，双方闹得不可开交。木兰其后得知是稣吉利搞鬼，用弄逼问他是谁指使，稣吉利坦言是玉帝旨意，木兰反以为他中了邪，致有一派胡言。
第五集
木兰以为稣吉利有病，细心照顾，稣对木兰竟起了遐思，藉故亲近，诈癫纳福。突劂入侵边境，大开杀戒，余承恩主张以暴易暴，李亮反对不果。余承恩训练突击队，不异杀一儆百，以树军威。木兰知承恩派突击队偷袭突厥村落，并下令屠杀，木兰不值承恩所为，带伙头军前往阻止。李亮知道后亦赶往声援，两人不幸为突厥所擒。
第六集
木兰和李亮为突劂所擒，受尽折磨，命在旦夕。李亮为免木兰受苦，把一切包揽上身，木兰大受感动，两人尽释前嫌。 铁勒向李亮劝降，李亮指突厥必败，铁勒不信，与李亮展并模拟战，结果铁勒大败。他释放李亮和木兰，并声言有他一日，也不会再侵大隋。木兰立了大功，回营后受嘉赏。
第七集
稣吉利倾慕木兰，难以自制，乃发奋图强，加入前锋营，得以日夕亲近木兰。木兰借承恩营房洗澡，承恩发觉木兰原是妩媚少女，不禁心神荡漾。承恩劝木兰及早退役，找个如意郎君。木兰坚持一日未达理想，决不退役。 王母以稣吉利表现良好，赠以蟠桃，稣一心把蟠桃送与木兰，却给茅神偷吃了。茅神警告稣吉利别动凡心，否则必遭天谴。李亮与木兰上山巡视，两人互吐心事和理想，李亮胸襟广阔，木兰大为欣赏。皇上派太子杨勇和皇子杨广到幽州犒赏三军，岂料杨勇浪荡不羁，带了杨广到妓院逍遥。
第八集
稣吉利借醉挑情，与杨勇大打出手。李亮不知杨勇是太子，把他打得鼻青脸肿。李崇大感不安，幸杨勇认李亮是个真汉子，不予追究，众人松一口气。稣吉利为了要使自己对木兰死心，况施法以元神上了木兰的身，主动向余承恩示爱，恩错愕以为木兰跟她开玩笑。杨勇欣赏李亮不畏权势和忠君爱国，乃拜他为师，杨广对皇位早有野心，对这不禁起了猜忌。
第九集
承恩见木兰与李亮亲近，心里不悦，借小事向李亮亲信开刀，木兰直指承恩妒忌李亮。表妹徐依人倾慕李亮，亮母提议二人成亲，李亮极力反对。亮母竟装病，并买通大夫，指自己只余三个月命，李亮为成全母亲心愿，答应与依人成亲。
第十集
木兰知道了李这婚事，丧然若失，稣吉利点破她害单思病，木兰悚然心惊。承恩看在眼里，向木兰求婚，木兰拒之。木兰恐暴露出自己的女儿身份，急中生智向李亮论称胸口为狠毒的母亲用东西烧了两个洞，故不愿别人见到，以免勾起伤心往事。徐富贵知道杨广的真实身份后，为领贪求富贵想把女儿依人嫁给杨广，但杨广为了更大的野心只得推辞。
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第十一集
军市羡开张仪式中，徐富贵又要把女儿嫁于太子，众人惊愕。李亮为获母亲原谅特向太子讨人情把依人要回。余恩妒恨木兰心系李亮，找李亮比武并使诈令其受伤。承恩酒后强拉木兰要木兰嫁给他，木兰拼命挣扎。承恩酒醒，懊悔不已向木兰道歉不为木兰接受。承恩公报私仇向元帅检举木兰为女儿身但为稣吉利以法术脱身。
第十二集
木兰发现城里失踪了十几位少女，李亮与众人商议认为得以男扮女装引采花贼现身，木兰不中选。木兰的女装扮像引起军中的兄弟有非非之想，就连李亮也迷惘起来。采花贼终于出现并将掳往幽州巨富凌四公子之府。
第十三集
在凌府木兰发现有花贼竟然是二皇子李广。李亮为搭救木兰搬出太子，不意发现采花贼是二皇子，便殿下却袒护皇弟之行径，木兰与李亮均感有气。李亮因怕自己对木兰想入非非，故意疏远木兰。此时正好木兰的父亲花弧到营中探望木兰并要木兰快快离营方为上策。
第十四集
花弧探亲女儿木兰但不幸却为正在练箭的稣吉利射伤肓头，养伤阶段花弧发现木兰爱上李亮。木兰送走父亲与李亮相遇重修与好。 突厥的突然来犯。李崇要承恩和李亮献破敌大计，但两人针锋相 对，而多数将领附和李亮，承恩心理不悦。承恩鼓其如簧之舌向太 子解释作战方略，令太子大为激赏要李崇采承恩之作战方略，战乱 中，承恩与太子和军队冲散了，太子责怪承恩之计中看不中用。
第十五集
李崇担心承恩的下落向李亮吐出内心秘密，原来承恩就是他的儿 子。一干人等待救援时，李崇派木兰冒险前往向李广求援，李广为 夺太子位不愿见木兰亦不愿意发救兵，此时军营仅存一天食粮且突 厥骑兵重重包围，李崇奋战不敌，死前旗李亮将玉佩交与承恩。作战利，皇上追究责任，要追捕李亮和木兰，原来这一切都是李广为公报私仇。
第十六集
李广诬陷木兰和李亮并动以大刑，稣吉利前往求助太子之时将李 亮与木兰救出校场，但太子为向父皇有所交代只得暂时解除李亮的职务。承恩自新野一役知自己刚愎自用使得隋军死伤不计其数，受尽内疚与自责的煎熬成为乞丐。李亮带承恩来到李崇的墓前，并揭 开随恩就是李崇的独生子的秘密，遂将玉佩交与承恩，承恩激动不已。
第十七集
承恩自害死自己的父亲，抱头痛哭。李广设下陷进要害太子，导致帝后对李勇误会，恰巧突厥又来犯，皇上决定御驾亲征，而三里 屯失利一战皇上亦决定格决李亮的将军职务，李亮等人决定自己向 突厥兵卫杀。李亮等人将突厥军队人马击退，令突厥军队拔营急撤了。李亮与木兰放弃军旅生涯。李勇从稣吉利处得知亮与兰打退突 厥的经过。经皇上之命要对他们论公行赏。
第十八集
亮与兰面圣上以后得以恢复原来的军职，两人在军中声名大噪。 庆功宴中，突厥杀手混入，兰与亮救出皇上。皇上要承恩继承李崇 的爵位，承恩不愿竟出家作道士表明悔恨心足迹。稣吉利向木兰表 达心意愿照顾木兰一生一世，木兰则渴望有一位大哥即认稣吉利为 大哥。木兰留于李亮表思乡情切，木兰返乡路途中因伤势恶化命在 旦夕，稣吉利一路尾随保护。
第十九集
苏吉利想方设法治好了木兰的伤口，跟随木兰回到家，却遭到木 兰母亲的刁难，苏吉利说明木兰在宫中相救皇上并升职。知县告之 木兰家，皇上将来巡视本县，并探视木兰及家人。李亮亦随同前 往。亮对木兰不辞而别而颇有微辞，两人在街上走着，各怀心事。
第二十集
李亮因将随皇上返京接掌禁军，思及离别不禁惆怅。帝后要招木 兰为驸马，木兰推辞不果只得表明女儿身份，帝后感念木兰一片孝 心反要纳木兰为太子妃。
第二十一集
木兰不能拒绝帝后，李亮心伫难受。苏吉利想请王母娘娘帮忙， 但王母认为一切均是命数无法更改。木兰要李亮表白，李亮明知二 人结合无望，不想木兰陷深渊中，认为表白只是延续痛苦而已。木 兰赴京将与太子完婚，途中向李亮表白宁死只求与亮结为夫妻，李亮控制不住压抑已久的激情，两人遂携手私奔。亮被扣上诱拐太子 妃的罪名，御林军押走亮母，木兰不愿累及亮及家人，前往京城向 皇上负荆请罪。
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第二十二集
皇上感念木兰救命之恩及杨勇表明不愿娶木兰，帝后看在木兰又 救了杨广的份上，赦免了亮与木兰的罪，并赐他们结为夫妻。李亮与木兰拜堂成亲，依人心中不悦与亮母联手为难木兰，亮母搬出家 规要木兰遵守，木兰却使出将军府的军事重地守则令母气结。木兰 与亮夫妻恩爱，两人比武，李亮输了便替木兰打洗澡水，亮母气不过决定想办法惩治木兰。
第二十三集
苏吉利自与天兵天将大战之后被玉帝贬为凡人，要他历尽老病死 三劫，甚是潦倒，亮与木兰认为苏吉利既已是凡人，该要成家立室，但苏吉利调侃的说意中人已嫁人了。
第二十四集
吉利被贬为凡人，尚无法适应凡人的病痛，诸多不适，更有次因 腿抽筋，木兰扶吉利进屋时，依人误认木兰与吉利有奸情乘报亮 母，亮母纠众家丁不由分说将吉利打成重伤。吉利孤身一人，无人照顾，木兰因此想将吉利接进将军府中居住好就近照料，孰知亮母以家中多为女眷不便加以婉拒，亮无奈讹称吉利不能人道，亮母只得答应。
第二十五集
亮母突然间对吉利虚寒问暖，令大家不解，依人甚至为此要回 乡，亮母不得以下，只好将吉利不能人道之事告知依人，因此吉利 不能人道的谣言在家丁中流传，吉利甚为愤怒，亮见慌言被拆穿，不知如何善后，亮母误会木兰教唆亮说谎，两人明争暗斗不意先后有族中长老和皇后为木兰撑腰，亮母气愤难平，故意到尼姑庵要削 发为尼，亮大叹独生子与丈夫难为不如带兵打仗。
第二十六集
木兰为因跟亮母之间相处情形，甚为心灰意懒，无心于军中事 务，而众官兵自战胜回朝后得意忘形疏于练兵致使军心涣散，皇上 突击阅兵大感震怒，令亮等六位将军除原本兵马外另召新兵，三个月后于教场比试选出新元帅。木兰虽为女中豪杰但众人多不愿受教于女流，故招不到新兵，甚是焦虑。吉利为帮木兰，而四处找人，不管三教九流都找了进来。
第二十七集
木兰的部队，总算凑足人数，但却都是一些乌合之众，就连依人 也女扮男装混进木兰的部队。新兵训练时，各将军的队员都是朝气 勃勃，只有木兰的队员打闹成一团，溃不成军，木兰为之泄气。亮 为木兰耽心，特找杨勇商议，杨勇答应将来在皇上面前为木兰解 释。木兰为了不在再众将军面前丢人现眼，特将这群乌合之众带往 乡间，对于各位已经放弃训练的他们，各人无聊之际与村中老人切 磋武艺竟然败下阵来，老人们误以为部队故意承让，备酒菜来道谢，反让众人羞愧不已，决心全力以赴接受木兰的训练。
第二十八集
依人蓄意挑拨离间拢乱军心，正当依人向亮母报告现况时为木兰 识破，木兰以此要胁依人要用心接受训练。木兰加紧训练，各人皆用心于受训。杨广存心挑唆马忠伤李亮，岂料亮武艺略胜一畴反将 马忠刺伤，木兰与亮相互鼓励并对马忠提防。三个月之期已到，皇上下令各将以抽签方式决定比试对手，第一场由木兰与马忠同组比 试，众人各自加紧练习。
第二十九集
比试当日，木兰擅于调兵遣将以些微分数胜了马忠，众兵喜极而 泣更是发奋图强。亮及众将分别比试。众将轮番比试过后，最后由 木兰与李亮问鼎元帅之位，众将皆希望由李亮胜出，然而皇后希望 木兰能够成为第一位女元帅。两队人马使出浑身解数，千钧一发际 依人被击中，木兰为了救依人不由饮恨，亮夺得大隋元帅。
第三十集
木兰为安慰吉利谎称为顾及亮面子所以故意放水，亮听到甚表激 愤。突厥又来侵犯隋土，皇上派亮镇守，亮故意不用木兰为先锋， 木兰惊愕。杨广暗中派人刺伤刘将军，却将此事诬陷为木兰部下所 为。因刘将军受伤，杨广为挑拨李亮与木兰，而向皇上进言改派木 兰为先锋，杨广眼见亮与木兰不合心中暗喜。
第三十一集
李亮率隋军出关与众将研讨军情，亮与兰常意见不合，木兰率领 先锋营前往敌阵一探虚实，发现隋民竟死状凄惨，众人皆为此愤怒不已，誓为他们讨回公道。众人为报惨死的隋民之仇，全力一战获得全胜。所到之处民众热烈欢迎，目光全集中在木兰身上
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第三十二集
回归京城后，木兰终日忙于应酬皇亲国戚，发现李亮却郁郁寡 欢，亮母对于木兰抢尽李亮的风头，而颇有微词，李亮甚为难堪， 只好外出找寻同僚，不料却遇到出宫的勇，勇即邀亮一同前往酒 楼。李亮成日与杨勇前往妓院喝酒，却跟木兰说是到众将军家中谈 事，而木兰仍旧周旋于贵夫人中，依人发觉亮其实是与勇前往妓 院，依人以此要胁亮陪她购物，亮母查觉藉机搓合依人与亮，木兰 知道亮原来是到妓院喝酒后与亮争吵。
第三十三集
李亮与木兰争吵后，二人各自认错，木兰与亮言归于好，二人约 定往后同进同出，各自为对方推掉其他应酬。木兰与亮终日面对 面，已到了无话可说的情况，二人决定还是各自办自己的事。木兰又与各贵夫人往来，而亮受不住枯燥无味的日子，遂和勇前往妓 院。
第三十四集
木兰故意到妓院侍酒有意让亮难堪。夫妻二人失和闹得帝后皆 知，皇帝罚李勇到祖宗陵墓看守并思过，罚亮与兰免去三月俸禄。 兰生亮的气，回娘家居住，吉利前往劝解，兰坚持要亮来接她才肯 回去。亮母称木兰与亮不合之际，要撮合依人与亮，吉利发觉往千 木兰，依人向亮母说明自己已不再喜欢亮，而另有意中人，木兰与 亮彼此认错，言归于好。而依人与吉利竟彼此互有爱意，但却为了 面子都不愿承认
第三十五集
广为除去亮与兰这对眼中钉，特向皇上请求跟亮切磋武艺，看自己是否武功有所精进，假意受伤想嫁祸于亮，幸兰有先见之明，已未开封的宝剑跟广比武，避过一劫。二人为免节外生枝，告假回乡祭祖，众乡亲前来祝贺亮母，有这样一位出类拔粹的媳妇，面对亮的战功毫无提及，亮母之生气。
第三十六集
利自以为依人喜欢的是湘，为此失魂落魄。朝中多名大将陆续暴 毙，宫中人心惶惶，帝紧急召回亮兰，追查原因。帝误信为亡魂作 崇摆坛祭祀，撤销追查行动，亮兰颇为惊愕，认为是有蹊跷，只好 暗中查探，全无头绪。亮母听信江湖术士之言，以为木兰不能传宗 接代，甚为苦恼。值此际亮遭受袭击，亮母为了不使李家绝后，决 定替亮纳妾。
第三十七集
兰将上门为亮纳妾之媒人赶回，亮母气结，只好将此事延缓。利与依人这对欢喜冤家，总算互表心迹，利恐玉帝回心转意招己回天 庭，因此不想耽误依人而远走他方。亮母为求早日抱孙，偕亮前往庙宇求神拜佛，途中避雨时遇上倩，亮不意被毒蛇咬中，倩不顾自身安危，为亮吸去毒液，众人皆为倩之义举折服。
第三十八集
亮母误以为依人与湘有暧昧关系，利因无法忍受庙内清淡的伙 食，外出觅食时遇上依人，利坦承自己是落难神仙，无法与之长相 斯守，依人一怒之下不再理利。亮母要湘对依人负责，招致接二连 三 的误会，幸得亮兰在旁协助，吉利与依人总算言归和好。倩体内毒素已清除，遂要告辞回乡，亮母极力挽留，倩只好答应。
第三十九集
亮母对兰命中注定无子嗣耿耿于怀。亮母大寿将届，众人暗中准备想给亮母一个惊喜，寿宴时倩粉墨登场，吸引无数目光。广带来 旨意要兰前往边关检视兵力，兰前往时，要亮小心广。亮母替倩作媒，倩因此不告而别，途中巧遇勇，勇将倩带回行宫，相处之下，勇为倩之不凡气质所著迷。
第四十集
兰前往雁门出视查，所到之处残破不堪，将士均是老弱残兵，兰 书信知亮详情，信中对朝迁殊多不满。亮母发觉倩中意之人竟是亮。遂暗中撮合。兰返京即被关入大牢，亮及众家人亦殃及，原来兰之信件经广手转给帝，帝愤怒下令斩兰亮，幸得勇及时前往制止，后要帝慎重考虑，不要因小失大，应重视边关问题。
第四十一集
帝要兰著手改善雁门山及军中一些规则。大难过后，兰致力于改 革军规，而疏忽亮。再此时倩则三番二次对亮表明心意，利与依人 察觉特提醒兰，女人应以家庭为重，兰则不以为意，仍旧忙于军 务。勇跟帝后提出欲娶倩为太子妃，兰也觉得倩与平民女子不同， 因此帝颁下圣旨不料当晚倩即欲自缢。帝宣倩入宫问明是否为勇所 迫婚，倩直言已向勇坦承另有意中人，勇百口莫辩，帝后怒将勇送 往汴京。兰发觉亮对倩颇有好感，一怒之下回娘家。利无意中看见 倩与广碰面，利急将此事告兰，兰为他事所忙未能得知。
第四十二集
军中粮库失火，利差点葬生火窟，幸兰及时赶到救出利。兰质问倩与广有何阴谋，亮竟维护倩，兰为之痛心。依人暗中探查倩之行踪，不料反遭倩下药精神错乱，亮母为依人之病状甚为著急，碍 于有圣旨，亮母只得著手筹备亮倩之婚事。
第四十三集
亮与兰已形同陌路，反倒与倩和乐融融。利在狱中不知依人近况，倩捎来依人已得了失心疯讯息，利越狱救依人，确被亮所阻止，兰带著利自首，不料狱卒全遭惨死，兰为查明真相，暂将利安 置破庙中，不料亮及官兵追踪而至，利终被官兵押送往刑场，兰劫囚，朝廷遂四处追捕兰利二人。
第四十四集
亮纳妾之日文武百官前往道贺，兰与利乔装混入府内。倩露出真 面目，原来倩乃突厥派来歼灭隋朝之大将，终被亮给识破。亮不慎 被擒，兰为救亮，不顾生命危险奋而一扑。兰在此役中受伤甚重， 回天乏术际，利与亮诚心求天，终令兰延续寿命。历经百劫兰与亮 决心携手解甲归田。（完
第一集
隋朝末年，突厥入侵，千夫长花弧勇战受伤，解甲归田。妻田氏怀胎十月，夫妻二人渴望生男，继后香火，岂料竟又是个女儿，花弧 大失所望，田氏对木兰更生厌恶。木兰长大，性格豪爽，不拘小节，常惹麻烦，花弧常为其 婚事烦恼。 灶神稣吉利躲懒好吃，木兰出言偌侮辱，稣吉利怀恨在心，向 玉帝诬陷木兰，差点使木兰丧命。 木兰与好友余承恩久别重逢，却不料承恩奉命征兵，花弧也在 名策之中，木兰不忍老父年老体衰，决定代父从军。
第二集
王母欣赏木兰志比天高，与玉帝打赌木兰必能出人投地，并命稣吉利下凡助木兰建功立业，但玉帝却暗叫稣吉利从中破坏，使他左右为难。 木兰往军营报到途中，与将军李亮结下梁子，不料李亮负责训练新兵，与木兰狭路相逢，木兰被编入伙头军，以为李亮公报私仇，二人仇怨更深。木兰找承恩相助，向元帅李崇举她。岂料稣吉利从中搞鬼。使木兰当场出丑。
第三集
稣吉利为使木兰知难而退，在伙食中暗放泻药，士兵苦不堪言，个个对着木兰大骂。李亮罚木兰打三百板子，打得她死去活来，稣吉利乘机劝说木兰放弃，但木兰不肯。 突劂可汗之弟铁勒混入军营，刺探隋军虚实，但为木兰发觉，铁勒终为李亮所擒，李崇本要把他处死，但李亮欣赏铁勒是个汉子，把他放了。
第四集
李亮舅父徐富贵贪财成性，欲包揽军营内 的采购生意，不异带妓女入军讨好相关人等。此事为木兰所知，并告之余承恩，承恩本就和李亮不和，正想大与问罪，稣吉利向二人施以法术，使李亮以为妓女是木兰带来的，双方闹得不可开交。木兰其后得知是稣吉利搞鬼，用弄逼问他是谁指使，稣吉利坦言是玉帝旨意，木兰反以为他中了邪，致有一派胡言。
第五集
木兰以为稣吉利有病，细心照顾，稣对木兰竟起了遐思，藉故亲近，诈癫纳福。突劂入侵边境，大开杀戒，余承恩主张以暴易暴，李亮反对不果。余承恩训练突击队，不异杀一儆百，以树军威。木兰知承恩派突击队偷袭突厥村落，并下令屠杀，木兰不值承恩所为，带伙头军前往阻止。李亮知道后亦赶往声援，两人不幸为突厥所擒。
第六集
木兰和李亮为突劂所擒，受尽折磨，命在旦夕。李亮为免木兰受苦，把一切包揽上身，木兰大受感动，两人尽释前嫌。 铁勒向李亮劝降，李亮指突厥必败，铁勒不信，与李亮展并模拟战，结果铁勒大败。他释放李亮和木兰，并声言有他一日，也不会再侵大隋。木兰立了大功，回营后受嘉赏。
第七集
稣吉利倾慕木兰，难以自制，乃发奋图强，加入前锋营，得以日夕亲近木兰。木兰借承恩营房洗澡，承恩发觉木兰原是妩媚少女，不禁心神荡漾。承恩劝木兰及早退役，找个如意郎君。木兰坚持一日未达理想，决不退役。 王母以稣吉利表现良好，赠以蟠桃，稣一心把蟠桃送与木兰，却给茅神偷吃了。茅神警告稣吉利别动凡心，否则必遭天谴。李亮与木兰上山巡视，两人互吐心事和理想，李亮胸襟广阔，木兰大为欣赏。皇上派太子杨勇和皇子杨广到幽州犒赏三军，岂料杨勇浪荡不羁，带了杨广到妓院逍遥。
第八集
稣吉利借醉挑情，与杨勇大打出手。李亮不知杨勇是太子，把他打得鼻青脸肿。李崇大感不安，幸杨勇认李亮是个真汉子，不予追究，众人松一口气。稣吉利为了要使自己对木兰死心，况施法以元神上了木兰的身，主动向余承恩示爱，恩错愕以为木兰跟她开玩笑。杨勇欣赏李亮不畏权势和忠君爱国，乃拜他为师，杨广对皇位早有野心，对这不禁起了猜忌。
第九集
承恩见木兰与李亮亲近，心里不悦，借小事向李亮亲信开刀，木兰直指承恩妒忌李亮。表妹徐依人倾慕李亮，亮母提议二人成亲，李亮极力反对。亮母竟装病，并买通大夫，指自己只余三个月命，李亮为成全母亲心愿，答应与依人成亲。
第十集
木兰知道了李这婚事，丧然若失，稣吉利点破她害单思病，木兰悚然心惊。承恩看在眼里，向木兰求婚，木兰拒之。木兰恐暴露出自己的女儿身份，急中生智向李亮论称胸口为狠毒的母亲用东西烧了两个洞，故不愿别人见到，以免勾起伤心往事。徐富贵知道杨广的真实身份后，为领贪求富贵想把女儿依人嫁给杨广，但杨广为了更大的野心只得推辞。
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第十一集
军市羡开张仪式中，徐富贵又要把女儿嫁于太子，众人惊愕。李亮为获母亲原谅特向太子讨人情把依人要回。余恩妒恨木兰心系李亮，找李亮比武并使诈令其受伤。承恩酒后强拉木兰要木兰嫁给他，木兰拼命挣扎。承恩酒醒，懊悔不已向木兰道歉不为木兰接受。承恩公报私仇向元帅检举木兰为女儿身但为稣吉利以法术脱身。
第十二集
木兰发现城里失踪了十几位少女，李亮与众人商议认为得以男扮女装引采花贼现身，木兰不中选。木兰的女装扮像引起军中的兄弟有非非之想，就连李亮也迷惘起来。采花贼终于出现并将掳往幽州巨富凌四公子之府。
第十三集
在凌府木兰发现有花贼竟然是二皇子李广。李亮为搭救木兰搬出太子，不意发现采花贼是二皇子，便殿下却袒护皇弟之行径，木兰与李亮均感有气。李亮因怕自己对木兰想入非非，故意疏远木兰。此时正好木兰的父亲花弧到营中探望木兰并要木兰快快离营方为上策。
第十四集
花弧探亲女儿木兰但不幸却为正在练箭的稣吉利射伤肓头，养伤阶段花弧发现木兰爱上李亮。木兰送走父亲与李亮相遇重修与好。 突厥的突然来犯。李崇要承恩和李亮献破敌大计，但两人针锋相 对，而多数将领附和李亮，承恩心理不悦。承恩鼓其如簧之舌向太 子解释作战方略，令太子大为激赏要李崇采承恩之作战方略，战乱 中，承恩与太子和军队冲散了，太子责怪承恩之计中看不中用。
第十五集
李崇担心承恩的下落向李亮吐出内心秘密，原来承恩就是他的儿 子。一干人等待救援时，李崇派木兰冒险前往向李广求援，李广为 夺太子位不愿见木兰亦不愿意发救兵，此时军营仅存一天食粮且突 厥骑兵重重包围，李崇奋战不敌，死前旗李亮将玉佩交与承恩。作战利，皇上追究责任，要追捕李亮和木兰，原来这一切都是李广为公报私仇。
第十六集
李广诬陷木兰和李亮并动以大刑，稣吉利前往求助太子之时将李 亮与木兰救出校场，但太子为向父皇有所交代只得暂时解除李亮的职务。承恩自新野一役知自己刚愎自用使得隋军死伤不计其数，受尽内疚与自责的煎熬成为乞丐。李亮带承恩来到李崇的墓前，并揭 开随恩就是李崇的独生子的秘密，遂将玉佩交与承恩，承恩激动不已。
第十七集
承恩自害死自己的父亲，抱头痛哭。李广设下陷进要害太子，导致帝后对李勇误会，恰巧突厥又来犯，皇上决定御驾亲征，而三里 屯失利一战皇上亦决定格决李亮的将军职务，李亮等人决定自己向 突厥兵卫杀。李亮等人将突厥军队人马击退，令突厥军队拔营急撤了。李亮与木兰放弃军旅生涯。李勇从稣吉利处得知亮与兰打退突 厥的经过。经皇上之命要对他们论公行赏。
第十八集
亮与兰面圣上以后得以恢复原来的军职，两人在军中声名大噪。 庆功宴中，突厥杀手混入，兰与亮救出皇上。皇上要承恩继承李崇 的爵位，承恩不愿竟出家作道士表明悔恨心足迹。稣吉利向木兰表 达心意愿照顾木兰一生一世，木兰则渴望有一位大哥即认稣吉利为 大哥。木兰留于李亮表思乡情切，木兰返乡路途中因伤势恶化命在 旦夕，稣吉利一路尾随保护。
第十九集
苏吉利想方设法治好了木兰的伤口，跟随木兰回到家，却遭到木 兰母亲的刁难，苏吉利说明木兰在宫中相救皇上并升职。知县告之 木兰家，皇上将来巡视本县，并探视木兰及家人。李亮亦随同前 往。亮对木兰不辞而别而颇有微辞，两人在街上走着，各怀心事。
第二十集
李亮因将随皇上返京接掌禁军，思及离别不禁惆怅。帝后要招木 兰为驸马，木兰推辞不果只得表明女儿身份，帝后感念木兰一片孝 心反要纳木兰为太子妃。
第二十一集
木兰不能拒绝帝后，李亮心伫难受。苏吉利想请王母娘娘帮忙， 但王母认为一切均是命数无法更改。木兰要李亮表白，李亮明知二 人结合无望，不想木兰陷深渊中，认为表白只是延续痛苦而已。木 兰赴京将与太子完婚，途中向李亮表白宁死只求与亮结为夫妻，李亮控制不住压抑已久的激情，两人遂携手私奔。亮被扣上诱拐太子 妃的罪名，御林军押走亮母，木兰不愿累及亮及家人，前往京城向 皇上负荆请罪。
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第二十二集
皇上感念木兰救命之恩及杨勇表明不愿娶木兰，帝后看在木兰又 救了杨广的份上，赦免了亮与木兰的罪，并赐他们结为夫妻。李亮与木兰拜堂成亲，依人心中不悦与亮母联手为难木兰，亮母搬出家 规要木兰遵守，木兰却使出将军府的军事重地守则令母气结。木兰 与亮夫妻恩爱，两人比武，李亮输了便替木兰打洗澡水，亮母气不过决定想办法惩治木兰。
第二十三集
苏吉利自与天兵天将大战之后被玉帝贬为凡人，要他历尽老病死 三劫，甚是潦倒，亮与木兰认为苏吉利既已是凡人，该要成家立室，但苏吉利调侃的说意中人已嫁人了。
第二十四集
吉利被贬为凡人，尚无法适应凡人的病痛，诸多不适，更有次因 腿抽筋，木兰扶吉利进屋时，依人误认木兰与吉利有奸情乘报亮 母，亮母纠众家丁不由分说将吉利打成重伤。吉利孤身一人，无人照顾，木兰因此想将吉利接进将军府中居住好就近照料，孰知亮母以家中多为女眷不便加以婉拒，亮无奈讹称吉利不能人道，亮母只得答应。
第二十五集
亮母突然间对吉利虚寒问暖，令大家不解，依人甚至为此要回 乡，亮母不得以下，只好将吉利不能人道之事告知依人，因此吉利 不能人道的谣言在家丁中流传，吉利甚为愤怒，亮见慌言被拆穿，不知如何善后，亮母误会木兰教唆亮说谎，两人明争暗斗不意先后有族中长老和皇后为木兰撑腰，亮母气愤难平，故意到尼姑庵要削 发为尼，亮大叹独生子与丈夫难为不如带兵打仗。
第二十六集
木兰为因跟亮母之间相处情形，甚为心灰意懒，无心于军中事 务，而众官兵自战胜回朝后得意忘形疏于练兵致使军心涣散，皇上 突击阅兵大感震怒，令亮等六位将军除原本兵马外另召新兵，三个月后于教场比试选出新元帅。木兰虽为女中豪杰但众人多不愿受教于女流，故招不到新兵，甚是焦虑。吉利为帮木兰，而四处找人，不管三教九流都找了进来。
第二十七集
木兰的部队，总算凑足人数，但却都是一些乌合之众，就连依人 也女扮男装混进木兰的部队。新兵训练时，各将军的队员都是朝气 勃勃，只有木兰的队员打闹成一团，溃不成军，木兰为之泄气。亮 为木兰耽心，特找杨勇商议，杨勇答应将来在皇上面前为木兰解 释。木兰为了不在再众将军面前丢人现眼，特将这群乌合之众带往 乡间，对于各位已经放弃训练的他们，各人无聊之际与村中老人切 磋武艺竟然败下阵来，老人们误以为部队故意承让，备酒菜来道谢，反让众人羞愧不已，决心全力以赴接受木兰的训练。
第二十八集
依人蓄意挑拨离间拢乱军心，正当依人向亮母报告现况时为木兰 识破，木兰以此要胁依人要用心接受训练。木兰加紧训练，各人皆用心于受训。杨广存心挑唆马忠伤李亮，岂料亮武艺略胜一畴反将 马忠刺伤，木兰与亮相互鼓励并对马忠提防。三个月之期已到，皇上下令各将以抽签方式决定比试对手，第一场由木兰与马忠同组比 试，众人各自加紧练习。
第二十九集
比试当日，木兰擅于调兵遣将以些微分数胜了马忠，众兵喜极而 泣更是发奋图强。亮及众将分别比试。众将轮番比试过后，最后由 木兰与李亮问鼎元帅之位，众将皆希望由李亮胜出，然而皇后希望 木兰能够成为第一位女元帅。两队人马使出浑身解数，千钧一发际 依人被击中，木兰为了救依人不由饮恨，亮夺得大隋元帅。
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木兰为安慰吉利谎称为顾及亮面子所以故意放水，亮听到甚表激 愤。突厥又来侵犯隋土，皇上派亮镇守，亮故意不用木兰为先锋， 木兰惊愕。杨广暗中派人刺伤刘将军，却将此事诬陷为木兰部下所 为。因刘将军受伤，杨广为挑拨李亮与木兰，而向皇上进言改派木 兰为先锋，杨广眼见亮与木兰不合心中暗喜。
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李亮率隋军出关与众将研讨军情，亮与兰常意见不合，木兰率领 先锋营前往敌阵一探虚实，发现隋民竟死状凄惨，众人皆为此愤怒不已，誓为他们讨回公道。众人为报惨死的隋民之仇，全力一战获得全胜。所到之处民众热烈欢迎，目光全集中在木兰身上
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4 《新花木兰 》 剧情介绍！！！
第三十二集
回归京城后，木兰终日忙于应酬皇亲国戚，发现李亮却郁郁寡 欢，亮母对于木兰抢尽李亮的风头，而颇有微词，李亮甚为难堪， 只好外出找寻同僚，不料却遇到出宫的勇，勇即邀亮一同前往酒 楼。李亮成日与杨勇前往妓院喝酒，却跟木兰说是到众将军家中谈 事，而木兰仍旧周旋于贵夫人中，依人发觉亮其实是与勇前往妓 院，依人以此要胁亮陪她购物，亮母查觉藉机搓合依人与亮，木兰 知道亮原来是到妓院喝酒后与亮争吵。
第三十三集
李亮与木兰争吵后，二人各自认错，木兰与亮言归于好，二人约 定往后同进同出，各自为对方推掉其他应酬。木兰与亮终日面对 面，已到了无话可说的情况，二人决定还是各自办自己的事。木兰又与各贵夫人往来，而亮受不住枯燥无味的日子，遂和勇前往妓 院。
第三十四集
木兰故意到妓院侍酒有意让亮难堪。夫妻二人失和闹得帝后皆 知，皇帝罚李勇到祖宗陵墓看守并思过，罚亮与兰免去三月俸禄。 兰生亮的气，回娘家居住，吉利前往劝解，兰坚持要亮来接她才肯 回去。亮母称木兰与亮不合之际，要撮合依人与亮，吉利发觉往千 木兰，依人向亮母说明自己已不再喜欢亮，而另有意中人，木兰与 亮彼此认错，言归于好。而依人与吉利竟彼此互有爱意，但却为了 面子都不愿承认
第三十五集
广为除去亮与兰这对眼中钉，特向皇上请求跟亮切磋武艺，看自己是否武功有所精进，假意受伤想嫁祸于亮，幸兰有先见之明，已未开封的宝剑跟广比武，避过一劫。二人为免节外生枝，告假回乡祭祖，众乡亲前来祝贺亮母，有这样一位出类拔粹的媳妇，面对亮的战功毫无提及，亮母之生气。
第三十六集
利自以为依人喜欢的是湘，为此失魂落魄。朝中多名大将陆续暴 毙，宫中人心惶惶，帝紧急召回亮兰，追查原因。帝误信为亡魂作 崇摆坛祭祀，撤销追查行动，亮兰颇为惊愕，认为是有蹊跷，只好 暗中查探，全无头绪。亮母听信江湖术士之言，以为木兰不能传宗 接代，甚为苦恼。值此际亮遭受袭击，亮母为了不使李家绝后，决 定替亮纳妾。
第三十七集
兰将上门为亮纳妾之媒人赶回，亮母气结，只好将此事延缓。利与依人这对欢喜冤家，总算互表心迹，利恐玉帝回心转意招己回天 庭，因此不想耽误依人而远走他方。亮母为求早日抱孙，偕亮前往庙宇求神拜佛，途中避雨时遇上倩，亮不意被毒蛇咬中，倩不顾自身安危，为亮吸去毒液，众人皆为倩之义举折服。
第三十八集
亮母误以为依人与湘有暧昧关系，利因无法忍受庙内清淡的伙 食，外出觅食时遇上依人，利坦承自己是落难神仙，无法与之长相 斯守，依人一怒之下不再理利。亮母要湘对依人负责，招致接二连 三 的误会，幸得亮兰在旁协助，吉利与依人总算言归和好。倩体内毒素已清除，遂要告辞回乡，亮母极力挽留，倩只好答应。
第三十九集
亮母对兰命中注定无子嗣耿耿于怀。亮母大寿将届，众人暗中准备想给亮母一个惊喜，寿宴时倩粉墨登场，吸引无数目光。广带来 旨意要兰前往边关检视兵力，兰前往时，要亮小心广。亮母替倩作媒，倩因此不告而别，途中巧遇勇，勇将倩带回行宫，相处之下，勇为倩之不凡气质所著迷。
第四十集
兰前往雁门出视查，所到之处残破不堪，将士均是老弱残兵，兰 书信知亮详情，信中对朝迁殊多不满。亮母发觉倩中意之人竟是亮。遂暗中撮合。兰返京即被关入大牢，亮及众家人亦殃及，原来兰之信件经广手转给帝，帝愤怒下令斩兰亮，幸得勇及时前往制止，后要帝慎重考虑，不要因小失大，应重视边关问题。
第四十一集
帝要兰著手改善雁门山及军中一些规则。大难过后，兰致力于改 革军规，而疏忽亮。再此时倩则三番二次对亮表明心意，利与依人 察觉特提醒兰，女人应以家庭为重，兰则不以为意，仍旧忙于军 务。勇跟帝后提出欲娶倩为太子妃，兰也觉得倩与平民女子不同， 因此帝颁下圣旨不料当晚倩即欲自缢。帝宣倩入宫问明是否为勇所 迫婚，倩直言已向勇坦承另有意中人，勇百口莫辩，帝后怒将勇送 往汴京。兰发觉亮对倩颇有好感，一怒之下回娘家。利无意中看见 倩与广碰面，利急将此事告兰，兰为他事所忙未能得知。
第四十二集
军中粮库失火，利差点葬生火窟，幸兰及时赶到救出利。兰质问倩与广有何阴谋，亮竟维护倩，兰为之痛心。依人暗中探查倩之行踪，不料反遭倩下药精神错乱，亮母为依人之病状甚为著急，碍 于有圣旨，亮母只得著手筹备亮倩之婚事。
第四十三集
亮与兰已形同陌路，反倒与倩和乐融融。利在狱中不知依人近况，倩捎来依人已得了失心疯讯息，利越狱救依人，确被亮所阻止，兰带著利自首，不料狱卒全遭惨死，兰为查明真相，暂将利安 置破庙中，不料亮及官兵追踪而至，利终被官兵押送往刑场，兰劫囚，朝廷遂四处追捕兰利二人。
第四十四集
亮纳妾之日文武百官前往道贺，兰与利乔装混入府内。倩露出真 面目，原来倩乃突厥派来歼灭隋朝之大将，终被亮给识破。亮不慎 被擒，兰为救亮，不顾生命危险奋而一扑。兰在此役中受伤甚重， 回天乏术际，利与亮诚心求天，终令兰延续寿命。历经百劫兰与亮 决心携手解甲归田。（完
Students in Residence
More Than a Meal Plan
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Whitman College, which anchors Princeton's new four-year residential college system, opens in August. At last, a dining hall for juniors and seniors (in mid-construction, left and right).
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By WINNIE HU
Published: July 29, 2007
THE Gothic towers and archways of Princeton’s newest dormitories were pieced together from 6,000 tons of hand-carved limestone and five types of bluestone, custom blended. Full-grown redwoods, cedars and firs were hoisted into place with cranes. Mahogany-framed leaded windows open the old-fashioned way, by hand-turned cranks, and the three-inch-thick oak doors were finished with teak oil rather than urethane.
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A send-off party this spring for Butler College, which is being torn down and rebuilt with the amenities needed for a four-year residential college.
At a cost of some $100 million, the residential complex known collectively as Whitman College looks as if it has always been there, on a campus whose traditions run centuries deep. The luxury continues inside: duplex suites, semiprivate dining rooms, classrooms, library with computer carrels, digital photo lab, performing arts theater with dressing rooms, lounge with a piano and big-screen television.
Whitman College, opening on Aug. 17, will begin to accommodate Princeton’s first major expansion in more than three decades — 500 additional undergraduates by 2012, for a total of 5,200. But the university is not just building a new residential college; it is reinventing campus life.
Whitman will anchor a new four-year residential college system, including two reconfigured two-year colleges, Mathey and Butler, that is intended to give juniors and seniors an alternative to the private eating clubs that have been the dominant social force here for more than a century.
Since 1982, every incoming freshman has been randomly assigned to live in one of five colleges — Mathey, Butler, Rockefeller, Forbes and Wilson — where they are encouraged to dine, socialize and form a community under the guidance of faculty members. But come third year, they have to move, and many end up at the “junior slums,” as some upperclass dorms are known. In the absence of dining halls in those dorms, more than 70 percent of juniors and seniors join an eating club. The rest eat in the underclass colleges and at the student center under a university meal plan, or they become responsible for their own sustenance.
The clubs have evolved into much more than a place to take meals and can border on an obsession for those vying for entry to the older, more prestigious ones. Half of the 10 clubs, which shun publicity about their rituals and operations, still handpick new members through “bicker,” a multinight process said to be named for the bickering over which applicants to accept. Critics have long charged that the clubs reinforce socioeconomic divisions at a university whose population ranges from scions of the nation’s wealthiest families to students on full need-based scholarship. The clubs have also become known for underage drinking and noisy parties, in part because of the university’s longstanding ban on fraternities and sororities. (In recent years, though, Princeton students have formed several underground Greek organizations.)
Rob Biederman, the student government president, expects the four-year colleges to provide a continuous social experience that does not exist now, and an opportunity for students who forgo clubs. Mr. Biederman will move into Whitman for his senior year after unsuccessfully bickering at two selective clubs. He describes a “hunter-gatherer lifestyle” his junior year, alternating meals at the student center and local restaurants when he could not wangle guest passes to the clubs.
“If you’re in an eating club, you have a place to hang out during the day that isn’t your room, that isn’t the campus center,” he says. “But if you’re independent, you don’t.”
“I think if you asked people at the end of Princeton to rate how happy they were, people in eating clubs would be the happiest,” he says. “And I think people in four-year colleges will be just as happy as the people in eating clubs.”
Nancy Weiss Malkiel, dean of the college, says the new colleges were created not to compete with the eating clubs but as a response to students who wanted to remain in their colleges and were asking for a broader menu of social programs. “We’re enabling students to choose what they want to do,” she says. “And there are plenty of students to go around with the expansion.”
Still, the potential impact on the clubs has not gone unnoted.
Kyle Morgan, a Tiger Inn president who graduated in June, says he is concerned that students who might have joined clubs will be tempted away by the perks the university is dangling: “If it’s, ‘Hey, you can live in a 1,300-square-foot, five-room quad and have a photo lab right next door or you can live in Brown Hall and join an eating club,’ I don’t think you’re presenting students with equal options.”
PRINCETON’S eating clubs occupy stately mansions off campus, primarily along Prospect Avenue. They hire their own chefs and staff to run the buildings, which typically include a dining room, living room, library and — something Whitman will not have — a taproom. Members tend to stop by several times a day for meals, study breaks, movie nights and formal dances.
The first official eating club, Ivy, was formed in 1879 by a group of students who rented a stove and hired a cook, according to William K. Selden’s historical account, “Club Life at Princeton.” Mediocre food and sporadic operation of the campus dining hall had driven students to seek out local boardinghouses, and more than 20 clubs eventually formed, though failing finances and declining membership closed half. Women were admitted to the last all-male holdouts, after a decade of discrimination litigation, in 1991.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, a Princeton alumnus, offered a primer on the distinct character and social standing of the clubs in his 1920 novel, “This Side of Paradise.” He pegged the exclusive Ivy Club as “detached and breathlessly aristocratic” and Tiger Inn as “broad-shouldered and athletic, vitalized by an honest elaboration of prep-school standards” — both descriptions that could apply today. Fitzgerald was a member of the University Cottage Club, “an impressive mélange of brilliant adventurers and well-dressed philanderers.”
While not every eating club is easily defined, many have established identities that attract like-minded members. The Cap and Gown Club is said to attract athletes, though swimmers and rowers (“floaters and boaters”) favor Cloister Inn.
As a student at Princeton in the late 1980s, I was a member of Terrace, one of five clubs where students “sign in” to join (not everyone gets their first choice, however, because a lottery system is used). I liked its artsy, casual vibe — and the food. After subsisting on institutional fare for two years, I couldn’t get enough of the ethnic cuisine and homemade breads, and gained seven pounds in one semester. The current consensus is that the food at Terrace has slipped. The best meals are apparently at Charter, Colonial and Tower.
“You talk to people who are 60 or 70 years old, and the thing they remember most about being at Princeton is being in the eating clubs,” says Marco Fossati-Bellani, a president of Colonial Club who graduated in June. “It’s one of the things I’m going to take away from Princeton. I mean, I’m happy I took the classes I did, but everything I did that was fun came through Colonial pretty much.”
Eating-club fun of recent years has gotten out of hand.
Tiger Inn — often called Princeton’s “Animal House” — went dry for nearly two months in 2006 after reports of alcohol abuse and a sexual assault during “pickups” weekend, when, in the culmination to bicker, new members celebrate their initiation. That was the second report that school year of a sexual assault at the club.
“It had gotten to the point where people on Prospect were saying, ‘It’s T.I., what do you expect?’ ” says Hap Cooper, the club’s graduate board president. “That embarrassed them.”
Tiger Inn reopened its taps with new security and alcohol policies, including a buddy system to check on new members and in-house escorts to guide intoxicated students home. In addition, students who misbehave can have privileges restricted.
Some students say the changes have encouraged them to act more responsibly. “Definitely, people have grown up,” says Mr. Morgan of Tiger Inn.
WHILE several members describe bicker as a “G-rated” fraternity rush, with get-to-know-you activities like Taboo and Pictionary, costume wearing, relay races and the telling of funny stories about yourself, others describe a selection process that assesses candidates for wealth, family connections and physical attractiveness.
Woodrow Wilson, who as the university’s president had proposed eliminating eating clubs, declared that the lot of those students who were left out was “a little less than deplorable.” The current president, Shirley M. Tilghman, has criticized the selective clubs for choosing too “homogeneously” and not representing “the spirit of Princeton.” Students themselves have organized boycotts of the system at various times.
If administrators have had differences with the clubs, which are independent of the university, they have come to accept their importance.
Mark Burstein, Princeton’s executive vice president, says he met regularly with club officers and alumni to solicit input and secure their cooperation for the four-year residential colleges. “We see a strong connection to the eating clubs,” he says. “You can’t really separate out entities that are so essential to your student population. I would say that we are part of the same family.”
In the past, the university has covered the cost of a typical meal plan — $4,315 last year, as opposed to the average club fee of $6,300 — for juniors and seniors receiving financial aid. This fall, the university will increase that aid by $2,000. All juniors and seniors can also eat two free meals a week at any residential college. The eating clubs, in turn, have agreed to let about 100 residents of the colleges join a club at a reduced rate. The majority of students, though, will have to choose between the two.
If last spring’s room draw is any indication, there is no shortage of interest in the four-year colleges. Whitman filled quickly — 476 applied for the 204 upperclass spots, with the remaining rooms reserved for about 300 freshmen and sophomores. About 100 juniors and seniors will move into Mathey College in the fall.
Most of the modernist-style Butler is being torn down and rebuilt; the new dorms are to open in fall 2009 to house students for all four years. One evening this past spring, more than 100 past and present residents of Butler gathered to send off the squat, dark-brown buildings, widely considered the ugliest on campus, with a courtyard barbecue featuring drinks and live music. Handout T-shirts mocked the industrial-style ceilings and proclaimed “the end of an era.”
Meg Whitman, an alumna and chief executive officer of eBay, donated $30 million for the construction of Whitman College on a site that once held tennis courts. The eating clubs may find competition in the food stations, which will offer salad, pizza and grilled foods in place of the assembly-line cafeteria service of yore. The dining hall will have booths and smaller tables instead of large ones arranged in long rows. An area will be kept open for late-night snacks.
The colleges also have their own activities budgets and academic faculty advisers, who will be assigned to residents for all four years. The university’s writing program has been relocated to Whitman, where instructors will have offices and meet with students in seminar rooms on the ground floor.
Jennifer Schoppe, who just completed her freshman year in Mathey, says when she arrived at Princeton she assumed she would join an eating club. But Ms. Schoppe, an engineering major, says she is loath to give up the perks of the residential college, including informal lunches with professors and subsidized tickets to the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
“Once you leave the college, it’s not available to you anymore,” she says. “It’s definitely made me think of the options a lot harder.”
Winnie Hu is an education reporter for The Times.
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More Than a Meal Plan
Angela Jimenez for The New York Times
Whitman College, which anchors Princeton's new four-year residential college system, opens in August. At last, a dining hall for juniors and seniors (in mid-construction, left and right).
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By WINNIE HU
Published: July 29, 2007
THE Gothic towers and archways of Princeton’s newest dormitories were pieced together from 6,000 tons of hand-carved limestone and five types of bluestone, custom blended. Full-grown redwoods, cedars and firs were hoisted into place with cranes. Mahogany-framed leaded windows open the old-fashioned way, by hand-turned cranks, and the three-inch-thick oak doors were finished with teak oil rather than urethane.
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Education Life
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Angela Jimenez for The New York Times
Tiger Inn and other eating clubs on Prospect Avenue provide a social base for students.
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Angela Jimenez for The New York Times
A send-off party this spring for Butler College, which is being torn down and rebuilt with the amenities needed for a four-year residential college.
At a cost of some $100 million, the residential complex known collectively as Whitman College looks as if it has always been there, on a campus whose traditions run centuries deep. The luxury continues inside: duplex suites, semiprivate dining rooms, classrooms, library with computer carrels, digital photo lab, performing arts theater with dressing rooms, lounge with a piano and big-screen television.
Whitman College, opening on Aug. 17, will begin to accommodate Princeton’s first major expansion in more than three decades — 500 additional undergraduates by 2012, for a total of 5,200. But the university is not just building a new residential college; it is reinventing campus life.
Whitman will anchor a new four-year residential college system, including two reconfigured two-year colleges, Mathey and Butler, that is intended to give juniors and seniors an alternative to the private eating clubs that have been the dominant social force here for more than a century.
Since 1982, every incoming freshman has been randomly assigned to live in one of five colleges — Mathey, Butler, Rockefeller, Forbes and Wilson — where they are encouraged to dine, socialize and form a community under the guidance of faculty members. But come third year, they have to move, and many end up at the “junior slums,” as some upperclass dorms are known. In the absence of dining halls in those dorms, more than 70 percent of juniors and seniors join an eating club. The rest eat in the underclass colleges and at the student center under a university meal plan, or they become responsible for their own sustenance.
The clubs have evolved into much more than a place to take meals and can border on an obsession for those vying for entry to the older, more prestigious ones. Half of the 10 clubs, which shun publicity about their rituals and operations, still handpick new members through “bicker,” a multinight process said to be named for the bickering over which applicants to accept. Critics have long charged that the clubs reinforce socioeconomic divisions at a university whose population ranges from scions of the nation’s wealthiest families to students on full need-based scholarship. The clubs have also become known for underage drinking and noisy parties, in part because of the university’s longstanding ban on fraternities and sororities. (In recent years, though, Princeton students have formed several underground Greek organizations.)
Rob Biederman, the student government president, expects the four-year colleges to provide a continuous social experience that does not exist now, and an opportunity for students who forgo clubs. Mr. Biederman will move into Whitman for his senior year after unsuccessfully bickering at two selective clubs. He describes a “hunter-gatherer lifestyle” his junior year, alternating meals at the student center and local restaurants when he could not wangle guest passes to the clubs.
“If you’re in an eating club, you have a place to hang out during the day that isn’t your room, that isn’t the campus center,” he says. “But if you’re independent, you don’t.”
“I think if you asked people at the end of Princeton to rate how happy they were, people in eating clubs would be the happiest,” he says. “And I think people in four-year colleges will be just as happy as the people in eating clubs.”
Nancy Weiss Malkiel, dean of the college, says the new colleges were created not to compete with the eating clubs but as a response to students who wanted to remain in their colleges and were asking for a broader menu of social programs. “We’re enabling students to choose what they want to do,” she says. “And there are plenty of students to go around with the expansion.”
Still, the potential impact on the clubs has not gone unnoted.
Kyle Morgan, a Tiger Inn president who graduated in June, says he is concerned that students who might have joined clubs will be tempted away by the perks the university is dangling: “If it’s, ‘Hey, you can live in a 1,300-square-foot, five-room quad and have a photo lab right next door or you can live in Brown Hall and join an eating club,’ I don’t think you’re presenting students with equal options.”
PRINCETON’S eating clubs occupy stately mansions off campus, primarily along Prospect Avenue. They hire their own chefs and staff to run the buildings, which typically include a dining room, living room, library and — something Whitman will not have — a taproom. Members tend to stop by several times a day for meals, study breaks, movie nights and formal dances.
The first official eating club, Ivy, was formed in 1879 by a group of students who rented a stove and hired a cook, according to William K. Selden’s historical account, “Club Life at Princeton.” Mediocre food and sporadic operation of the campus dining hall had driven students to seek out local boardinghouses, and more than 20 clubs eventually formed, though failing finances and declining membership closed half. Women were admitted to the last all-male holdouts, after a decade of discrimination litigation, in 1991.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, a Princeton alumnus, offered a primer on the distinct character and social standing of the clubs in his 1920 novel, “This Side of Paradise.” He pegged the exclusive Ivy Club as “detached and breathlessly aristocratic” and Tiger Inn as “broad-shouldered and athletic, vitalized by an honest elaboration of prep-school standards” — both descriptions that could apply today. Fitzgerald was a member of the University Cottage Club, “an impressive mélange of brilliant adventurers and well-dressed philanderers.”
While not every eating club is easily defined, many have established identities that attract like-minded members. The Cap and Gown Club is said to attract athletes, though swimmers and rowers (“floaters and boaters”) favor Cloister Inn.
As a student at Princeton in the late 1980s, I was a member of Terrace, one of five clubs where students “sign in” to join (not everyone gets their first choice, however, because a lottery system is used). I liked its artsy, casual vibe — and the food. After subsisting on institutional fare for two years, I couldn’t get enough of the ethnic cuisine and homemade breads, and gained seven pounds in one semester. The current consensus is that the food at Terrace has slipped. The best meals are apparently at Charter, Colonial and Tower.
“You talk to people who are 60 or 70 years old, and the thing they remember most about being at Princeton is being in the eating clubs,” says Marco Fossati-Bellani, a president of Colonial Club who graduated in June. “It’s one of the things I’m going to take away from Princeton. I mean, I’m happy I took the classes I did, but everything I did that was fun came through Colonial pretty much.”
Eating-club fun of recent years has gotten out of hand.
Tiger Inn — often called Princeton’s “Animal House” — went dry for nearly two months in 2006 after reports of alcohol abuse and a sexual assault during “pickups” weekend, when, in the culmination to bicker, new members celebrate their initiation. That was the second report that school year of a sexual assault at the club.
“It had gotten to the point where people on Prospect were saying, ‘It’s T.I., what do you expect?’ ” says Hap Cooper, the club’s graduate board president. “That embarrassed them.”
Tiger Inn reopened its taps with new security and alcohol policies, including a buddy system to check on new members and in-house escorts to guide intoxicated students home. In addition, students who misbehave can have privileges restricted.
Some students say the changes have encouraged them to act more responsibly. “Definitely, people have grown up,” says Mr. Morgan of Tiger Inn.
WHILE several members describe bicker as a “G-rated” fraternity rush, with get-to-know-you activities like Taboo and Pictionary, costume wearing, relay races and the telling of funny stories about yourself, others describe a selection process that assesses candidates for wealth, family connections and physical attractiveness.
Woodrow Wilson, who as the university’s president had proposed eliminating eating clubs, declared that the lot of those students who were left out was “a little less than deplorable.” The current president, Shirley M. Tilghman, has criticized the selective clubs for choosing too “homogeneously” and not representing “the spirit of Princeton.” Students themselves have organized boycotts of the system at various times.
If administrators have had differences with the clubs, which are independent of the university, they have come to accept their importance.
Mark Burstein, Princeton’s executive vice president, says he met regularly with club officers and alumni to solicit input and secure their cooperation for the four-year residential colleges. “We see a strong connection to the eating clubs,” he says. “You can’t really separate out entities that are so essential to your student population. I would say that we are part of the same family.”
In the past, the university has covered the cost of a typical meal plan — $4,315 last year, as opposed to the average club fee of $6,300 — for juniors and seniors receiving financial aid. This fall, the university will increase that aid by $2,000. All juniors and seniors can also eat two free meals a week at any residential college. The eating clubs, in turn, have agreed to let about 100 residents of the colleges join a club at a reduced rate. The majority of students, though, will have to choose between the two.
If last spring’s room draw is any indication, there is no shortage of interest in the four-year colleges. Whitman filled quickly — 476 applied for the 204 upperclass spots, with the remaining rooms reserved for about 300 freshmen and sophomores. About 100 juniors and seniors will move into Mathey College in the fall.
Most of the modernist-style Butler is being torn down and rebuilt; the new dorms are to open in fall 2009 to house students for all four years. One evening this past spring, more than 100 past and present residents of Butler gathered to send off the squat, dark-brown buildings, widely considered the ugliest on campus, with a courtyard barbecue featuring drinks and live music. Handout T-shirts mocked the industrial-style ceilings and proclaimed “the end of an era.”
Meg Whitman, an alumna and chief executive officer of eBay, donated $30 million for the construction of Whitman College on a site that once held tennis courts. The eating clubs may find competition in the food stations, which will offer salad, pizza and grilled foods in place of the assembly-line cafeteria service of yore. The dining hall will have booths and smaller tables instead of large ones arranged in long rows. An area will be kept open for late-night snacks.
The colleges also have their own activities budgets and academic faculty advisers, who will be assigned to residents for all four years. The university’s writing program has been relocated to Whitman, where instructors will have offices and meet with students in seminar rooms on the ground floor.
Jennifer Schoppe, who just completed her freshman year in Mathey, says when she arrived at Princeton she assumed she would join an eating club. But Ms. Schoppe, an engineering major, says she is loath to give up the perks of the residential college, including informal lunches with professors and subsidized tickets to the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
“Once you leave the college, it’s not available to you anymore,” she says. “It’s definitely made me think of the options a lot harder.”
Winnie Hu is an education reporter for The Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/education/edlife/princeton.html?ei=5070&en=4115dd4389a7049c&ex=1186632000&pagewanted=all
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The final book in the “Harry Potter” series has been released and MSNBC.com readers are pouring through their copies.
Below is a collection of some of their reactions to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” and the frenzy surrounding the release. Beware — spoilers lurk.
I thought that the book was wonderful. It tied up all of the loose ends and was incredibly entertaining along the way. Everyone knew that Snape was good and I'm so glad that J.K. Rowling made him into a hero, he always deserved to be one. I do wish that Sirius would have made more of a return than he did, but in the case of Dumbledore's history, Rowling made up for his loss entirely. I'm so happy that Harry was in turn a horcrux, I thought that that might be the road that she would take and it really made it that much more great when Harry overtook Voldemort. This book was just so incredibly creative! It took me all of my Saturday (almost the true 24 hours) to finish and to really soak everything in, and it was well worth the wait for such a spectacular ending. It really lives up to the hype, plus some.
— Anastacia, Pinellas Park, Fla.
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I guess you could call me the Simon Cowell of Harry Potter books, but I actually did not enjoy the last book. I feel it lacked true, deep composition and it lacked valuable literary devices which can be used to illuminate the reader's imagination. Further more, I felt like Rowling led us on to believe Harry was going to die and then gave the finale an unsatisfying ending. I feel the epilogue was too sugary & sweet and not well thought-out by Rowling. So yes, I do criticize Harry Potter #7. I apologize to all the MSNBC readers who disagree with me!
— TJ Volcheck, Bakers Mill, NY
It was terribly sad that the series had to end. In fact when Harry thought he was dead I almost threw up. It was awful to see all thoughts people die. I did love the ending! It was exactly how I thought it would end. I had a hunch that Ron and Hermione would get married and Harry and Ginny too. They are perfect for each other. The part I was really amazed by is that Harry and Ginny had 3 kids (which I thought was going to happen!) And I thought they were going to name one of them Lily and another James, which was kind of creepy to have a hunch that actually came true because that never happens to me. Anyways I cried after I finished because I didn't want the series to end. I hope the magic will live forever. J.K. Rowling has changed the world and made my life worth living. I feel so close to Harry Potter, and I love the series and character and the ending it was wonderful!
— Virginia Ellis
The book, in my opinion, wasn't so great, up until about page 350. It was a little bit boring, but that might just be due to my disappointment about them not returning to Hogwarts. However, the ending was absolutely fantastic, and although I had part of the twist figured out already, Rowling threw in a few other things that totally threw me off guard. Snape's memories were, by far, the best part of the book. So much was uncovered in this book. However, the "Nineteen Years Later" part was a bit sugary and unrealistic...I was hoping it would end with another conflict that would keep you guessing after you put the book down. However, Rowling never fails at writing an amazingly intriguing book, especially not this time. Thanks.
— Hailey, Olympia, Wash.
I thought the ending was weak for a Harry Potter book and especially for the end of the series. There really was only a few ways it could have ended conclusively and even Rowling was too predictable in how she intended to end it any how. That and it ended abruptly with no recourse or explanation of the previous 19 years in the epilogue was disappointing. Draco's animosity toward Harry Potter seems to have abated quite a bit. Whoop-de-doo. He was never that important of a character compared to the others that readers have come to know and love — i.e., the Weasleys, the Order of the Phoenix, Harry himself, etc. I mean, had it not seemed as if Rowling just wanted to end the series I would've been fine, but the lack of history and following up on what happened to her characters was pretty inconsistent. Harry obviously got married and knocked up Ginny. Whatever happened to Severus? Was he finally exonerated in the wizarding world? What about Voldemort's body? These really aren't unreasonable complaints. The book is already closing in 800 pages by itself, I really don't think another 25-40 dedicated to a better epilogue would have killed Rowling.
— Sean, Princeton, Ind.
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I liked the book in whole. Rowling pieced a lot together nicely. I didn't like the fact that Harry, in the end, didn't kill Voldemort! Voldemort killed himself with his own curse that was intended for Harry. The ending ("19 years later") left a lot of open questions for me as far as their lives on a personal level. What are Ron, Hermione and Harry doing for a living now? Who is running Hogwarts? She pleased a lot of fan with having Ron and Hermione marry as well as Harry and Ginny but ... I would have liked to know more about their lives other than the fact that they all have kids who are off to Hogwarts now. I felt that a lot more of the past 19 years could have been explained better.
— Jenny, Wentzville, Mo.
I very much love the way J.K. Rowling ended this series. It was a great book. I actually prefer books that leave a bit of room at the end for imagination. I was a bit disappointed about the whole Dudley/Aunt Petunia thing, though. In books 5 and 6, she hinted that there was much, much more to Dudley than we had previously been shown. And Aunt Petunia seemed to know a lot about a world she usually pretended to ignore. Rowling gave us yet more of the Dudley/Aunt Petunia twist in this last one. We now know why Aunt Petunia hated her sister. But as this was supposed to be the last book in the series, she should have done more with it, let us know what Dumbledore meant when he said Petunia had done things to Dudley. Maybe we will see an off-shoot of this series focusing on Harry's family, either past, present, or future? I hope so.
— Rebecca, Denver
If it sold millions of copies, who really cares if it lived up to the hype? She has the money in her account, and I don't think the dissatisfied are going to get much of a refund. I wouldn't pay a nickel for the book myself, but what do I know?
— Ron Yageman, Wyandotte, Mich.
I enjoyed the book immensely and thought it closed the series well. I read it in one day, slept on it, and went back to read the last few chapters — especially "King's Cross" again to truly understand it. I am impressed by the complexity of the level of magic that Rowling delved into and the bravery and selflessness Harry showed when facing Voldemort. Like the others, I also feel that the "19 years later" bit was disappointing. Something like 5 years in the future such as dropping in at the wedding of Harry and Ginny and given us an update on the Weasleys, Teddy Tonks, and everyone else and what they were doing would have been much more satisfactory than what was presented. But perhaps Ms. Rowling intends for us to use our imaginations. All in all, it was well done. Thank you for the wonderful ride Ms. Rowling, it has been magical.
— Elissa Blabac, Phoenix
I read it quickly because I wanted to know whether or not Harry survives, but I wasn't about to read the end first! Now, I am reading it again — more slowly, to savor the details. But while I am pleased with the way it ended, I do have a few bones to pick. First, I found I really missed the folks at Hogwarts — especially Neville, whose voice (once we heard it) sounded so much more confident and mature than the last time we saw him. Obviously a LOT went on at Hogwarts while Harry, Ron and Hermione were in hiding, and I'd have liked for Rowling to "check in" with the Hogwarts kids from time to time to see their evolution into a committed fighting force. I wonder if she remembers that we fans love more characters than just the Big Three. Also, the epilogue raised more questions than it answered — we knew who would end up with whom, the question is what are they DOING? Where do they work? How's Luna, how's Neville, how are the rest of the Weasleys? I really would like to know what a wizarding world looks like 19 years after the fall of Voldemort, and the epilogue just didn't do it.
— Valerie Lynn, Nashville, Tenn.
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Updated: 2:51 p.m. ET July 24, 2007
NEW YORK - The fate of Harry Potter and friends, known now to millions of fans, remains officially secret — sort of.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final volume of author J.K. Rowling's fantasy series, came out Saturday amid an international frenzy to find out whether Harry lived or died. More than 10 million copies sold over the weekend and the suspense was apparently unbroken by a wave of prerelease Internet spoilers, including photographed images of the entire book.
Days after publication, Harry's lot has been widely revealed, but you're unlikely to find out by accident. At least two online publications, Slate and Salon, describe the plot at length, but carry emphatic spoiler alerts. Videos labeled as spoilers have popped up on YouTube. Readers spill on the fan sites mugglenet.com and leaky-cauldron.org, but, again, those linking to discussion boards are warned.
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"I think we should have at least a few months, allow people to read and discuss and digest before blasting it from headlines," says Leaky Cauldron Web master Melissa Anelli. "It will be at least that long before we reveal a plot detail on Leaky that we don't put behind a link."
Both The (Baltimore) Sun and The New York Times were inundated with angry e-mails for running prepublication reviews, although both avoided major plot points. Radio station WNYC, in New York City, was supposed to air a review Monday — two days after the book came out — but changed it to a general discussion about spoilers because of concerns over giving away the ending.
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A two-part interview with Rowling, who before publication had begged for secrecy, will air Thursday and Friday on NBC-TV's "Today" show. Kyle Good, a spokeswoman for Rowling's U.S. publisher, Scholastic, Inc., declined comment on what the author will say.
Scholastic issued the book under a strict embargo and sued one retailer, DeepDiscount.com, after some customers received early copies.
When asked by The Associated Press about post-release spoilers, Good said that Scholastic's only request was not to reveal anything before the publication date.
Rowling, whose seven Potter books have sold more than 335 million copies worldwide, acknowledged during a recent, prerelease interview with The Associated Press that she had no control over discussions once "Deathly Hallows" went on sale.
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"I suppose it's fair game," she said. "You can't be too precious about this stuff. Obviously, as a writer I would prefer people to be able to sit down and read it and discover the ending through reading the whole story. But with 'Half-Blood Prince,' people dangled a sheet over a flyover (overpass) the next day — 'Snape kills Dumbledore.' Part of me does find that very funny; I can't help myself."
The author seemed more bothered by readers who peek at the ending first.
"I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me," she said. It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on."
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Dateline: 2006
When will J.K. Rowling Finish Harry Potter Book 7?
Neither Rowling or her publisher has made any statements about a projected date of publication. In a September 13, 2006 entry on her Web site, Rowling mentions taking her manuscript with her on her August trip to New York. She reports that because of security issues, she was almost not allowed to carry her manuscript on board the plane on her return trip to England, but permission was finally granted. She goes on to say that she is now trying to decide between two possible titles for Harry Potter Seven and states, "They would both be appropriate, so I think I'll have to wait until I'm further into the book to decide which one works best." That certainly sounds like she has a long way to go before the manuscript is finished.
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Who Will Die in Harry Potter Book 7?
Some of the biggest questions Harry Potter fans have about Harry Potter Book 7 revolve around death. Fans want to know, "Will any characters we care about die?" "Will Harry Potter live or die?" We now have some, but not all, of the answers. According to news reports, in a June 26 television interview on the Richard and Judy show in the UK, Rowling mentioned that she had written the last chapter of Book 7 in 1990 but had done some rewriting since then. The Telegraph reported that during the interview, Rowling stated,
"One character got a reprieve but I have to say two die that I did not intend to die." When asked if the dead characters were "much-loved ones", she replied: "A price has to be paid. We are dealing with pure evil here. They don't target extras, do they? They go for the main characters. . . well, I do."
While Rowling did not specifically state the fate of Harry Potter, she did say she understood why an author would kill off main characters to prevent "non-author written sequels."
Dateline: 2005
In celebration of the publication of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Joanne Kathleen Rowling granted several interviews in July 2005. While the focus of the interviews was on Harry Potter 6, the subject of Harry Potter Book 7 came up, and some of J.K. Rowling’s answers did shed light on her main character and what we might expect in the final Harry Potter book.
When Can We Expect Harry Potter Book 7 to Be Published?
Although she said she’d started Harry Potter 7, J.K. Rowling stated that because of wanting to devote time to her baby,
"Realistically, I don't think I'm going to be able to do real work on it until next year. I see next year as the time that I’m really going to write seven. But I've started and I am doing little bits and pieces here and there when I can." (July 16, 2005 MuggleNet / The Leaky Cauldron joint interview with Joanne Kathleen Rowling).
How Many Pages Will Harry Potter Book 7 Be?
"I do not yet know really how long the seventh book will be, although I have a plan, I have not yet plotted it out chapter by chapter, so I cannot really tell you. I do not think it will be as long as Order of the Phoenix, but I am going to reserve the right to make it as long as that if I want to." (BBC report on J.K. Rowling’s July 17, 2005 Press Conference)
How Much of A Role Are the Founders Going to Play in Harry Potter Book 7?
"Some, as you probably have guessed from the end of six." (MuggleNet / The Leaky Cauldron joint interview with Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
Will Harry Potter Die in Harry Potter Book 7?
"Am I going to finish Harry off? I cannot possibly tell you that, I'm sorry." (J.K. Rowling’s July 17, 2005 Press Conference)
What Does J.K. Rowling Think of Harry Potter?
In response to the question "Do you feel Harry Potter is a good role model for a generation?" Rowling stated,
"I see Harry as someone who is struggling to do the right thing, who is not without faults, who acts impetuously as you would expect someone of his age to act, but who is ultimately a very loyal person, and a very very courageous person. So, in as much as he has qualities that I admire most I would say he is a good role model. That doesn't mean that he is saintly, but then frankly, who is? But I think you do see enough of Harry's inner life, the workings of his mind in the books to know that he is ultimately human, struggling to do the right thing, which I think is admirable." (Transcript of the Harry Potter Children’s Press Conference Weekend , July 17, 2005)
What Will Harry Potter Book 7 Be Like?
"'It will be a very different kind of book,' she says, 'because I kind of cue up the shot at the end of six, and you're left with a very clear idea of what Harry's going to do next.'" ( Time Magazine, posted July 17, 2005)
Will we learn what happens to the characters after Hogwarts in Harry Potter Book 7?
"There is already a chapter written in which you find out about the survivors post Hogwarts fates, so, I will have to re¬write it when I get there, because that was written years ago and it wasn't really written on the assumption that I would use it as it is written in the hooks, it is really an act of faith, it was me saying to myself 'I will get here and this information is the end point and that is where I'm trying to get to. So yes, there will be.'" (J.K. Rowling’s July 17, 2005 Press Conference)
Where Can We Find More Information About Harry Potter Book 7?
You will find even more information that relates to Harry Potter 6 and Harry Potter 7 by reading the full Mugglenet / The Leaky Cauldron interview with JK Rowling and the July 17, 2005 Transcript of the Harry Potter Children’s Press Conference Weekend. Check J.K. Rowling’s Web site regularly also. At the end of December, 2005, in her online diary, Rowling wrote, "I have been fine-tuning the fine-tuned plan for [book] seven during the past few weeks so I can really set to work in January."
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Dateline: July 10, 2007
Will There Be Another Harry Potter Book?
In response to the Save Harry campaign spearheaded by those ancxious for Harry to live and more books to be written, J.K. Rowling, who in the past had said this was it, the last Harry Potter book, stated, "never say never."
"'I think that Harry's story comes to quite a clear end, sadly,' Rowling said."
"But I've always said that I wouldn't say never.
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I can't say I'll never write another book about that world just because I think, what do I know in 10 years time...? But I think it's unlikely." (ABC News Australia, July 10, 2007)
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J.K. Rowling Makes A Plea For No Spoilers
Today, in a diary entry on her Web site, J.K. Rowling expressed concern about people with knowledge about the plot of Harry Potter Book 7, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, revealing the information. She thanked the Harry Potter fansite The Leaky Cauldron for its April 28th editorial condemning spoilers. Rowling stated,
"The Leaky Cauldron's early mission statement on spoilers (ie, don't, and we're not putting them up if you do) is deeply appreciated by yours truly. . . . I want the readers who have, in many instances, grown up with Harry, to embark on the last adventure they will share with him without knowing where they are they going."
Dateline: February 6, 2007
J.K. Rowling Reveals Her Feelings on Completing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Today, in an extended diary entry on her Web site that begins with a quotation from Charles Dickens, J.K. Rowling shares her mixed emotions at having completed the manuscript for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in her Harry Potter series. Rowling reveals, "I've never felt such a mixture of extreme emotions in my life, never dreamed I could feel simultaneously heartbroken and euphoric." Rowling goes on to reassure fans, "If it comes as any consolation, I think there will be plenty to continue arguing and speculating about even after 'Deathly Hallows' comes out." Rowling ends the diary entry by revealing that of all the Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is her favorite.
Dateline: February 1, 2007
We Now Know the Publication Date of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!
On February 1, 2007, J.K. Rowling's American publisher, Scholastic, announced that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released at 12:01 a.m. on July 21, 2007. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published by Scholastic in hardcover (ISBN: 0-545-01022-5), under the Arthur A. Levine imprint. The book will be illustrated by Mary GrandPré, the illustrator of previous six Harry Potter books. The deluxe edition (ISBN: 0-545-02937-6) and reinforced library edition (ISBN: 0-545-02936-8) will also be released at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, July 21, 2007. On February 1, 2007, J.K. Rowling confirmed this on her Web site and also announced the same publication date in the UK and "in other English speaking countries around the world."
Dateline: December 21, 2006
We Know Know the Title! It's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The word is out! The title of Harry Potter Book 7 is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. According to BBC News and a number of other news sources, and confirmed by her U.S. publisher, Scholastic, the announcement was made on J.K. Rowling's Web site. If you missed it, here's why. According to Bloomberg.com, "The title of the seventh book in the series was revealed through a puzzle on the British writer's Web site, where visitors have to click on items to reveal a chamber and then guess the name of the book from the clues given." If you want to try it, see the Seattle Times article about it for some assistance.
We Don't Know the Publication Date Yet
If there's a title, does that mean Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is almost done? In J.K. Rowling's December 19th online diary entry, the first entry in quite some time, the author states,
"I am now writing scenes that have been planned, in some cases, for a dozen years or even more. I don't think anyone who has not been in a similar situation can possibly know how this feels: I am alternately elated and overwrought. I both want, and don't want, to finish this book (don't worry, I will)."
However, no finish date is mentioned or implied. On Scholastic's site, the publisher states, in reference to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, "The publication date has not been set."
Dateline: October-November 2006
Is J.K. Rowling Making Any Progress on Harry Potter Book 7?
In a November 28 article about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince winning a Royal Mail Award for Scottish Children's Books, Scotsman.com reported on the message J.K. Rowling sent that was read by her editor at the awards ceremony. In the message, Rowling stated, "I'm sorry I am unable to receive this award in person today, but I currently have my head down writing the final book, which is coming along nicely."
After reporting in September that she was trying to decide between two possible titles for Harry Potter 7, on October 31, J.K. Rowling reported on her Web site that, "I've now got a third title...Title three currently ahead by a nose,..."
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The final book in the “Harry Potter” series has been released and MSNBC.com readers are pouring through their copies.
Below is a collection of some of their reactions to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” and the frenzy surrounding the release. Beware — spoilers lurk.
I thought that the book was wonderful. It tied up all of the loose ends and was incredibly entertaining along the way. Everyone knew that Snape was good and I'm so glad that J.K. Rowling made him into a hero, he always deserved to be one. I do wish that Sirius would have made more of a return than he did, but in the case of Dumbledore's history, Rowling made up for his loss entirely. I'm so happy that Harry was in turn a horcrux, I thought that that might be the road that she would take and it really made it that much more great when Harry overtook Voldemort. This book was just so incredibly creative! It took me all of my Saturday (almost the true 24 hours) to finish and to really soak everything in, and it was well worth the wait for such a spectacular ending. It really lives up to the hype, plus some.
— Anastacia, Pinellas Park, Fla.
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I guess you could call me the Simon Cowell of Harry Potter books, but I actually did not enjoy the last book. I feel it lacked true, deep composition and it lacked valuable literary devices which can be used to illuminate the reader's imagination. Further more, I felt like Rowling led us on to believe Harry was going to die and then gave the finale an unsatisfying ending. I feel the epilogue was too sugary & sweet and not well thought-out by Rowling. So yes, I do criticize Harry Potter #7. I apologize to all the MSNBC readers who disagree with me!
— TJ Volcheck, Bakers Mill, NY
It was terribly sad that the series had to end. In fact when Harry thought he was dead I almost threw up. It was awful to see all thoughts people die. I did love the ending! It was exactly how I thought it would end. I had a hunch that Ron and Hermione would get married and Harry and Ginny too. They are perfect for each other. The part I was really amazed by is that Harry and Ginny had 3 kids (which I thought was going to happen!) And I thought they were going to name one of them Lily and another James, which was kind of creepy to have a hunch that actually came true because that never happens to me. Anyways I cried after I finished because I didn't want the series to end. I hope the magic will live forever. J.K. Rowling has changed the world and made my life worth living. I feel so close to Harry Potter, and I love the series and character and the ending it was wonderful!
— Virginia Ellis
The book, in my opinion, wasn't so great, up until about page 350. It was a little bit boring, but that might just be due to my disappointment about them not returning to Hogwarts. However, the ending was absolutely fantastic, and although I had part of the twist figured out already, Rowling threw in a few other things that totally threw me off guard. Snape's memories were, by far, the best part of the book. So much was uncovered in this book. However, the "Nineteen Years Later" part was a bit sugary and unrealistic...I was hoping it would end with another conflict that would keep you guessing after you put the book down. However, Rowling never fails at writing an amazingly intriguing book, especially not this time. Thanks.
— Hailey, Olympia, Wash.
I thought the ending was weak for a Harry Potter book and especially for the end of the series. There really was only a few ways it could have ended conclusively and even Rowling was too predictable in how she intended to end it any how. That and it ended abruptly with no recourse or explanation of the previous 19 years in the epilogue was disappointing. Draco's animosity toward Harry Potter seems to have abated quite a bit. Whoop-de-doo. He was never that important of a character compared to the others that readers have come to know and love — i.e., the Weasleys, the Order of the Phoenix, Harry himself, etc. I mean, had it not seemed as if Rowling just wanted to end the series I would've been fine, but the lack of history and following up on what happened to her characters was pretty inconsistent. Harry obviously got married and knocked up Ginny. Whatever happened to Severus? Was he finally exonerated in the wizarding world? What about Voldemort's body? These really aren't unreasonable complaints. The book is already closing in 800 pages by itself, I really don't think another 25-40 dedicated to a better epilogue would have killed Rowling.
— Sean, Princeton, Ind.
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I liked the book in whole. Rowling pieced a lot together nicely. I didn't like the fact that Harry, in the end, didn't kill Voldemort! Voldemort killed himself with his own curse that was intended for Harry. The ending ("19 years later") left a lot of open questions for me as far as their lives on a personal level. What are Ron, Hermione and Harry doing for a living now? Who is running Hogwarts? She pleased a lot of fan with having Ron and Hermione marry as well as Harry and Ginny but ... I would have liked to know more about their lives other than the fact that they all have kids who are off to Hogwarts now. I felt that a lot more of the past 19 years could have been explained better.
— Jenny, Wentzville, Mo.
I very much love the way J.K. Rowling ended this series. It was a great book. I actually prefer books that leave a bit of room at the end for imagination. I was a bit disappointed about the whole Dudley/Aunt Petunia thing, though. In books 5 and 6, she hinted that there was much, much more to Dudley than we had previously been shown. And Aunt Petunia seemed to know a lot about a world she usually pretended to ignore. Rowling gave us yet more of the Dudley/Aunt Petunia twist in this last one. We now know why Aunt Petunia hated her sister. But as this was supposed to be the last book in the series, she should have done more with it, let us know what Dumbledore meant when he said Petunia had done things to Dudley. Maybe we will see an off-shoot of this series focusing on Harry's family, either past, present, or future? I hope so.
— Rebecca, Denver
If it sold millions of copies, who really cares if it lived up to the hype? She has the money in her account, and I don't think the dissatisfied are going to get much of a refund. I wouldn't pay a nickel for the book myself, but what do I know?
— Ron Yageman, Wyandotte, Mich.
I enjoyed the book immensely and thought it closed the series well. I read it in one day, slept on it, and went back to read the last few chapters — especially "King's Cross" again to truly understand it. I am impressed by the complexity of the level of magic that Rowling delved into and the bravery and selflessness Harry showed when facing Voldemort. Like the others, I also feel that the "19 years later" bit was disappointing. Something like 5 years in the future such as dropping in at the wedding of Harry and Ginny and given us an update on the Weasleys, Teddy Tonks, and everyone else and what they were doing would have been much more satisfactory than what was presented. But perhaps Ms. Rowling intends for us to use our imaginations. All in all, it was well done. Thank you for the wonderful ride Ms. Rowling, it has been magical.
— Elissa Blabac, Phoenix
I read it quickly because I wanted to know whether or not Harry survives, but I wasn't about to read the end first! Now, I am reading it again — more slowly, to savor the details. But while I am pleased with the way it ended, I do have a few bones to pick. First, I found I really missed the folks at Hogwarts — especially Neville, whose voice (once we heard it) sounded so much more confident and mature than the last time we saw him. Obviously a LOT went on at Hogwarts while Harry, Ron and Hermione were in hiding, and I'd have liked for Rowling to "check in" with the Hogwarts kids from time to time to see their evolution into a committed fighting force. I wonder if she remembers that we fans love more characters than just the Big Three. Also, the epilogue raised more questions than it answered — we knew who would end up with whom, the question is what are they DOING? Where do they work? How's Luna, how's Neville, how are the rest of the Weasleys? I really would like to know what a wizarding world looks like 19 years after the fall of Voldemort, and the epilogue just didn't do it.
— Valerie Lynn, Nashville, Tenn.
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Updated: 2:51 p.m. ET July 24, 2007
NEW YORK - The fate of Harry Potter and friends, known now to millions of fans, remains officially secret — sort of.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final volume of author J.K. Rowling's fantasy series, came out Saturday amid an international frenzy to find out whether Harry lived or died. More than 10 million copies sold over the weekend and the suspense was apparently unbroken by a wave of prerelease Internet spoilers, including photographed images of the entire book.
Days after publication, Harry's lot has been widely revealed, but you're unlikely to find out by accident. At least two online publications, Slate and Salon, describe the plot at length, but carry emphatic spoiler alerts. Videos labeled as spoilers have popped up on YouTube. Readers spill on the fan sites mugglenet.com and leaky-cauldron.org, but, again, those linking to discussion boards are warned.
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"I think we should have at least a few months, allow people to read and discuss and digest before blasting it from headlines," says Leaky Cauldron Web master Melissa Anelli. "It will be at least that long before we reveal a plot detail on Leaky that we don't put behind a link."
Both The (Baltimore) Sun and The New York Times were inundated with angry e-mails for running prepublication reviews, although both avoided major plot points. Radio station WNYC, in New York City, was supposed to air a review Monday — two days after the book came out — but changed it to a general discussion about spoilers because of concerns over giving away the ending.
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A two-part interview with Rowling, who before publication had begged for secrecy, will air Thursday and Friday on NBC-TV's "Today" show. Kyle Good, a spokeswoman for Rowling's U.S. publisher, Scholastic, Inc., declined comment on what the author will say.
Scholastic issued the book under a strict embargo and sued one retailer, DeepDiscount.com, after some customers received early copies.
When asked by The Associated Press about post-release spoilers, Good said that Scholastic's only request was not to reveal anything before the publication date.
Rowling, whose seven Potter books have sold more than 335 million copies worldwide, acknowledged during a recent, prerelease interview with The Associated Press that she had no control over discussions once "Deathly Hallows" went on sale.
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"I suppose it's fair game," she said. "You can't be too precious about this stuff. Obviously, as a writer I would prefer people to be able to sit down and read it and discover the ending through reading the whole story. But with 'Half-Blood Prince,' people dangled a sheet over a flyover (overpass) the next day — 'Snape kills Dumbledore.' Part of me does find that very funny; I can't help myself."
The author seemed more bothered by readers who peek at the ending first.
"I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me," she said. It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on."
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Dateline: 2006
When will J.K. Rowling Finish Harry Potter Book 7?
Neither Rowling or her publisher has made any statements about a projected date of publication. In a September 13, 2006 entry on her Web site, Rowling mentions taking her manuscript with her on her August trip to New York. She reports that because of security issues, she was almost not allowed to carry her manuscript on board the plane on her return trip to England, but permission was finally granted. She goes on to say that she is now trying to decide between two possible titles for Harry Potter Seven and states, "They would both be appropriate, so I think I'll have to wait until I'm further into the book to decide which one works best." That certainly sounds like she has a long way to go before the manuscript is finished.
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Who Will Die in Harry Potter Book 7?
Some of the biggest questions Harry Potter fans have about Harry Potter Book 7 revolve around death. Fans want to know, "Will any characters we care about die?" "Will Harry Potter live or die?" We now have some, but not all, of the answers. According to news reports, in a June 26 television interview on the Richard and Judy show in the UK, Rowling mentioned that she had written the last chapter of Book 7 in 1990 but had done some rewriting since then. The Telegraph reported that during the interview, Rowling stated,
"One character got a reprieve but I have to say two die that I did not intend to die." When asked if the dead characters were "much-loved ones", she replied: "A price has to be paid. We are dealing with pure evil here. They don't target extras, do they? They go for the main characters. . . well, I do."
While Rowling did not specifically state the fate of Harry Potter, she did say she understood why an author would kill off main characters to prevent "non-author written sequels."
Dateline: 2005
In celebration of the publication of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Joanne Kathleen Rowling granted several interviews in July 2005. While the focus of the interviews was on Harry Potter 6, the subject of Harry Potter Book 7 came up, and some of J.K. Rowling’s answers did shed light on her main character and what we might expect in the final Harry Potter book.
When Can We Expect Harry Potter Book 7 to Be Published?
Although she said she’d started Harry Potter 7, J.K. Rowling stated that because of wanting to devote time to her baby,
"Realistically, I don't think I'm going to be able to do real work on it until next year. I see next year as the time that I’m really going to write seven. But I've started and I am doing little bits and pieces here and there when I can." (July 16, 2005 MuggleNet / The Leaky Cauldron joint interview with Joanne Kathleen Rowling).
How Many Pages Will Harry Potter Book 7 Be?
"I do not yet know really how long the seventh book will be, although I have a plan, I have not yet plotted it out chapter by chapter, so I cannot really tell you. I do not think it will be as long as Order of the Phoenix, but I am going to reserve the right to make it as long as that if I want to." (BBC report on J.K. Rowling’s July 17, 2005 Press Conference)
How Much of A Role Are the Founders Going to Play in Harry Potter Book 7?
"Some, as you probably have guessed from the end of six." (MuggleNet / The Leaky Cauldron joint interview with Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
Will Harry Potter Die in Harry Potter Book 7?
"Am I going to finish Harry off? I cannot possibly tell you that, I'm sorry." (J.K. Rowling’s July 17, 2005 Press Conference)
What Does J.K. Rowling Think of Harry Potter?
In response to the question "Do you feel Harry Potter is a good role model for a generation?" Rowling stated,
"I see Harry as someone who is struggling to do the right thing, who is not without faults, who acts impetuously as you would expect someone of his age to act, but who is ultimately a very loyal person, and a very very courageous person. So, in as much as he has qualities that I admire most I would say he is a good role model. That doesn't mean that he is saintly, but then frankly, who is? But I think you do see enough of Harry's inner life, the workings of his mind in the books to know that he is ultimately human, struggling to do the right thing, which I think is admirable." (Transcript of the Harry Potter Children’s Press Conference Weekend , July 17, 2005)
What Will Harry Potter Book 7 Be Like?
"'It will be a very different kind of book,' she says, 'because I kind of cue up the shot at the end of six, and you're left with a very clear idea of what Harry's going to do next.'" ( Time Magazine, posted July 17, 2005)
Will we learn what happens to the characters after Hogwarts in Harry Potter Book 7?
"There is already a chapter written in which you find out about the survivors post Hogwarts fates, so, I will have to re¬write it when I get there, because that was written years ago and it wasn't really written on the assumption that I would use it as it is written in the hooks, it is really an act of faith, it was me saying to myself 'I will get here and this information is the end point and that is where I'm trying to get to. So yes, there will be.'" (J.K. Rowling’s July 17, 2005 Press Conference)
Where Can We Find More Information About Harry Potter Book 7?
You will find even more information that relates to Harry Potter 6 and Harry Potter 7 by reading the full Mugglenet / The Leaky Cauldron interview with JK Rowling and the July 17, 2005 Transcript of the Harry Potter Children’s Press Conference Weekend. Check J.K. Rowling’s Web site regularly also. At the end of December, 2005, in her online diary, Rowling wrote, "I have been fine-tuning the fine-tuned plan for [book] seven during the past few weeks so I can really set to work in January."
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Dateline: July 10, 2007
Will There Be Another Harry Potter Book?
In response to the Save Harry campaign spearheaded by those ancxious for Harry to live and more books to be written, J.K. Rowling, who in the past had said this was it, the last Harry Potter book, stated, "never say never."
"'I think that Harry's story comes to quite a clear end, sadly,' Rowling said."
"But I've always said that I wouldn't say never.
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I can't say I'll never write another book about that world just because I think, what do I know in 10 years time...? But I think it's unlikely." (ABC News Australia, July 10, 2007)
Dateline: May 14, 2007
J.K. Rowling Makes A Plea For No Spoilers
Today, in a diary entry on her Web site, J.K. Rowling expressed concern about people with knowledge about the plot of Harry Potter Book 7, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, revealing the information. She thanked the Harry Potter fansite The Leaky Cauldron for its April 28th editorial condemning spoilers. Rowling stated,
"The Leaky Cauldron's early mission statement on spoilers (ie, don't, and we're not putting them up if you do) is deeply appreciated by yours truly. . . . I want the readers who have, in many instances, grown up with Harry, to embark on the last adventure they will share with him without knowing where they are they going."
Dateline: February 6, 2007
J.K. Rowling Reveals Her Feelings on Completing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Today, in an extended diary entry on her Web site that begins with a quotation from Charles Dickens, J.K. Rowling shares her mixed emotions at having completed the manuscript for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in her Harry Potter series. Rowling reveals, "I've never felt such a mixture of extreme emotions in my life, never dreamed I could feel simultaneously heartbroken and euphoric." Rowling goes on to reassure fans, "If it comes as any consolation, I think there will be plenty to continue arguing and speculating about even after 'Deathly Hallows' comes out." Rowling ends the diary entry by revealing that of all the Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is her favorite.
Dateline: February 1, 2007
We Now Know the Publication Date of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!
On February 1, 2007, J.K. Rowling's American publisher, Scholastic, announced that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released at 12:01 a.m. on July 21, 2007. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published by Scholastic in hardcover (ISBN: 0-545-01022-5), under the Arthur A. Levine imprint. The book will be illustrated by Mary GrandPré, the illustrator of previous six Harry Potter books. The deluxe edition (ISBN: 0-545-02937-6) and reinforced library edition (ISBN: 0-545-02936-8) will also be released at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, July 21, 2007. On February 1, 2007, J.K. Rowling confirmed this on her Web site and also announced the same publication date in the UK and "in other English speaking countries around the world."
Dateline: December 21, 2006
We Know Know the Title! It's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The word is out! The title of Harry Potter Book 7 is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. According to BBC News and a number of other news sources, and confirmed by her U.S. publisher, Scholastic, the announcement was made on J.K. Rowling's Web site. If you missed it, here's why. According to Bloomberg.com, "The title of the seventh book in the series was revealed through a puzzle on the British writer's Web site, where visitors have to click on items to reveal a chamber and then guess the name of the book from the clues given." If you want to try it, see the Seattle Times article about it for some assistance.
We Don't Know the Publication Date Yet
If there's a title, does that mean Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is almost done? In J.K. Rowling's December 19th online diary entry, the first entry in quite some time, the author states,
"I am now writing scenes that have been planned, in some cases, for a dozen years or even more. I don't think anyone who has not been in a similar situation can possibly know how this feels: I am alternately elated and overwrought. I both want, and don't want, to finish this book (don't worry, I will)."
However, no finish date is mentioned or implied. On Scholastic's site, the publisher states, in reference to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, "The publication date has not been set."
Dateline: October-November 2006
Is J.K. Rowling Making Any Progress on Harry Potter Book 7?
In a November 28 article about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince winning a Royal Mail Award for Scottish Children's Books, Scotsman.com reported on the message J.K. Rowling sent that was read by her editor at the awards ceremony. In the message, Rowling stated, "I'm sorry I am unable to receive this award in person today, but I currently have my head down writing the final book, which is coming along nicely."
After reporting in September that she was trying to decide between two possible titles for Harry Potter 7, on October 31, J.K. Rowling reported on her Web site that, "I've now got a third title...Title three currently ahead by a nose,..."
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