Word: magical
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...fledgling personal-trainer business. "My fear is that my ability to earn has fallen by the wayside," says Battelli, 53, of Westminster, Colo. As Christmas approaches, all that weighs heavily. "Come hell or high water," he says, "I'm going to make sure my children have the same holiday magic that I had as a child." He'll pay for the snowboard his teen son wants through "sheer will," and takes comfort in knowing he has a backstop of untapped home equity...
Another way to welcome new members is to encourage that magic “sense of community” that so many students seek out. The executive leadership should draw on the success of the Fellows program, where numerous dinners and endless loitering in the corridors have led to the existence of a quasi-social community. Establishing events such as the IOP poker night and adding a happy hour and common room could supply the social aspect that students are looking...
...genius on the soccer field?combined with his antics off it?made him a modern icon, held on that day. But last Friday he lost the final round to multiple organ failure after complications triggered by a lung infection, aged 59. Even generations unborn when he worked his soccer magic lamented the loss of a great sporting talent...
...paper on “Butch Lesbians’ Relationships in Contemporary Soweto.”Yet even engaging forums seemed, on reflection, peripheral. Such was the case with a panel marking the centenary of the Maji Maji Rebellion in German East Africa, when native rebels believed a magic potion would make them invulnerable to German bullets. (It didn’t). So mulled over is the history of the event that panelists could only discuss how elephant hunters had occupied a “liminal space” or how Germany’s African soldiers had devised...
...that if you have your first thesis chapter due the next day, you should make sure to go see the latest “Harry Potter” with your friends. But I am saying that you will have to make the time, rather than wait for a magic few minutes. You’ll always be busy, but you won’t always have all your friends so close...