Word: magical
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...three innings en route to a 10-7 win. It appeared that Schilling, with a dislocated peroneal tendon in his ankle, could not start until late in the series--if the Sox could get to late. But doctors (first testing their unique technique on a cadaver) worked some impromptu magic, suturing the skin around the tendon. The Sox did their part, winning two games in extra-inning, five-hour-plus thrillers at Fenway Park, with new hero David Ortiz knocking in walk-off hits...
...pollsters sampling the whole country? Pollsters usually interview about 1,000 registered voters and, thanks to the magic of statistical math, 95% of the time those 1,000 accurately reflect the opinions of the entire country, give or take a margin of error of plus or minus 3%. But some people are not reached. Polls are conducted by phone, which leaves out about 8% of adult Americans, including those in institutions (prisons, hospitals, military bases), some low-income people and the approximately 4% of adults who have only cell phones. Then there are the people who hang up on pollsters...
Harvard (9-5-0, 3-1-0 Ivy) continued its October magic, rolling past winless Providence (0-14-0, 0-8-0 Big East) 3-0 yesterday afternoon at Ohiri Field to run its season-high win streak to five games...
...Sherry responds to that anguish by trying to find the sources in life for what was memorable in fiction, starting with a dusty old man in Mexico, his hand "caked with dried excrement," who, Sherry says, was central to The Power and the Glory. The trouble is, Greene's magic lies not in what he found on his travels but what he made of it. Searching for his initial inspirations is like scrambling after the hat out of which a conjurer pulled a rabbit...
...Running is a magic trick,” Reid said...