Word: magical
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...celebrity falls out. Hill, who is in the midst of a hunger strike that wound up lasting 26 days, encourages me as I ascend. "So often in our lives fear holds us back," Hill yells down at me, smiling. "And most of us miss out on the magic of life because of that one little word." I wonder if by week three, Gandhi was this chipper...
...After such deft sleight of hand, it's not surprising to learn that the director's preferred medium is magic. New Zealand?born Nawalowalo, 43, played basketball for her country before joining a mime troupe that took her to Europe in the late '80s. For seven years she worked with English illusionist Richard McDougall, melding mime, masks and magic. But a 1994 trip back to Fiji with her ailing father proved to be a turning point. Being exposed to the female rituals of village life made the director "want to go deeper into my own culture," she says. By decade...
...bomb threes. And if he leads Dallas to a title, Nowitzki will stamp the European revolution of America's game. The first wave of Euros from the early '90s - Vlade Divac of Serbia, Toni Kukoc and Drazen Petrovic from Croatia - had to earn the begrudging respect of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and the basketball establishment. The next wave - Nowitzki, Peja Stojakovic of Serbia, Pau Gasol of Spain - could play, but still faced the question of whether they could carry a team deep into the playoffs. Nowitzki proves they can. On behalf of American hoops fans: Vielen Dank, Dirk. Many thanks...
...nights in Loker Commons, the Pub Night Commission’s and CLC’s Harvard-Yale pep rally, dodgeball tournaments, and the Junior Class Events Commission’s “Junior Class Does Junior High” dance. Most notably, the office found the magic formula for a successful Harvard State Fair in the fall and Yardfest in the spring: close the dining halls, and pour carnival food into Tercentenary Theater. Drawn by a mechanical bull and Ben Folds, respectively, and by dinner on both occasions, students flocked to the events, with many exclaiming afterwards that...
...being dragged along by one person,” she added. “We’re all kind of pulling ourselves along together.” With a new, dedicated team in place as competition began, nine proved to be the Harvard’s magic number, as the Crimson took ninth place in every event of the season. Harvard took ninth place out of 13 competing teams at the season-opening St. Lawrence Carnival, a performance it followed with another ninth-place finish at the Vermont Carnival the next week. Harvard was similarly consistent in the second...