41.   The provincial party banned the book and destroyed most copies, but the damage had been done.

42.   The public library banned his books, with the excuse that Tarzan and Jane indulged in immoral premarital acts in the jungle.

43.   The survey said religious people are sometimes seen as intolerant and support efforts to ban controversial books and oppose equal rights measures for gays and lesbians, for example.

44.   These reasons have actually been given in attempts to ban these books.

45.   They can thank the very critics who are trying to ban their books.

46.   Those who want the Harry Potter books banned are threatened by an active imagination.

47.   Those who want the book banned have either forgotten or are unaware of their own history.

48.   Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Saturday he signed the order to ban the book on Thursday.

49.   A French court earlier this year banned a book that claimed the late President Francois Mitterrand hid his cancer from the public during more than a decade in office.

50.   Al-Azhar banned the book the same year it was published because its portrayal of God and the prophets as fictional characters was deemed to be sacrilegious.