In doing so the courts were increasing the risk that the children would be damaged long-term, Barnardo's said, with research suggesting they would have problems adjusting to jobs, relationships and money management in the future.

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Warner agrees that Ms Rowling's creation is a different sort of commercial property, one with long-term potential that could be damaged by a typical Hollywood marketing blitz, says Diane Nelson, the studio's global brand manager for Harry Potter.

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His long term strategy must be to define the Republican brand, already damaged and defeated, as the cause of dysfunctional government.

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