Word: magical
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...Karita Mattila, Pl?cido Domingo and Natalie Dessay as the company farewelled outgoing general manager Joseph Volpe, and already some of their luster is rubbing off. But for someone who only seven years ago was helping put up the sets for Opera Australia's touring school production of The Magic Flute, she's far from a pouting diva. While "playing up and climbing the ladder," is all part of the opera business, she says, "I just try and stay out of it and have a laugh...
...However, the magic didn’t work two days in a row. After losing to the Tigers 7-2 in their regular-season finale, Harvard had a chance to set things to right in the finals. But the team quickly fell behind 2-0 following losses...
...Received his PhD in Black Magic and Summonation from Penn State --Condemned to hell for sinning against nature --Committed bachelor --Loved his indentured devil servant...
Physicists at Harvard have discovered a “quantum-mechanical magic trick” by finding a way to stop a pulse of light in one part of space and make it reappear two tenths of a millimeter away, according to researchers at the University’s Hau Laboratory. Led by Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Lene V. Hau, the experiment involved firing lasers through two clouds of sodium atoms cooled to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero. At such cold temperatures the atoms’ motions are virtually halted, and they begin to behave more...
...real magic trick is Hill's, and the transformation he works on his main character. Coyne begins the book as a cold, despicable misanthrope, but as we learn about the personal past that made him that way - he had an abusive father - we gain sympathy for him. Coyne changes, gaining humor in desperation, warming to the girlfriend he took for granted, and reconnecting with the music that he has all but abandoned. When confronted with real inhumanity, as opposed to his own affected coldness, Coyne softens unexpectedly, and his emotions wake up. We start to like him and sympathize with...