Word: magical
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During his first year, he joined the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus and the lightweight crew team, captained his dorm’s intramural teams, performed magic shows for nursing home residents and acted in three shows...
Golden does not attribute the success of his characters to a magic trick, but rather to a careful honing of the skills of a novelist and a keen eye for observation...
...pursuit of a career. New Yorker Judy Rosenblum tried that path. After retiring at 55 from teaching elementary school in Cedarhurst, N.Y., she decided to go to art school. "It was an unknown for me," she says. "I never in my life thought I could paint. It was like magic." She found that she could exhibit and sell her paintings. Buoyed by this success, she took courses to learn how to play bridge. Then, building on her teaching expertise, she enrolled in a class on how to teach the game, which she now does during her winters in Florida...
...Magic Johnson had his talk show. MICHAEL JORDAN had the Wizards. After 3 1/2 seasons at the helm of Washington's aggressively mediocre NBA team (and two seasons as the team's oldest and best player), Jordan got his walking papers last week in a rage-filled, 18min. meeting with Wizards' owner Abe Pollin. Jordan argued that as the greatest player in the history of the game--and as the man whose return to the court lined Pollin's pockets with $30 million of unanticipated revenue--he deserved more time to turn things around. Pollin countered that Jordan...
...years of truce initiatives have come to naught, and if anything, the conflict is even more intractable now. The "roadmap" concept may be an attempt to bridge Israeli and Palestinian concerns by linking a cease-fire to a "political horizon" for Palestinian statehood, but it contains no new magic formula for resolving the basic standoff over security...