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...Stern, and basketball fans, get a gift starting Thursday night: the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics, a rekindling of the sport's most thrilling rivalry. The much anticipated matchup has already been touted with endless clips of Bill Russell, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor and, of course, Bird vs. Magic. This year the battle of the NBA's two most storied franchises feature the sport's most breathtaking player, Kobe Bryant, against Boston's vaunted Big Three, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen...
...While the products of engineering have often caused as many problems as they have solved, consider that, for us mere mortals (or Muggles in homage to Commencement speaker J.K. Rowling), engineering is the closest thing to magic that we have. Right now, bits are traveling to and fro like ghosts and mere numbers are being converted into music and images as if evoked by some spell...
...speech before the NASA Sunnyvale Symposium, Horowitz noted that Project Sentinal had its drawbacks: it required the use of “a directed and precompensated beacon” and operated based on what have been termed “magic frequencies”—frequencies that humans calculate would likely be used by aliens trying to contact us. Such narrow search mechanisms limit the ability to search the sky, forcing Horowitz to ask: “How hard are these guys up there really going to work...
McClellan writes his share about White House personalities such as Dick Cheney ("the magic man") and Condoleezza Rice ("I was struck by how deft she is at protecting her reputation"). But the bulk of analysis is aimed at the top dog. "President Bush has always been an instinctive leader more than an intellectual leader," he notes. "He chooses based...
Celebrated Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan was awarded Best Director in Cannes on Sunday. Perhaps now Turks will finally go see his movies. Despite being heralded globally for his movie magic, Ceylan's films - slow-paced, poetic tales of individuals struggling against the bleak backdrop of modern Turkey - routinely flop back home. Distant, a previous Cannes competitor, was seen by just 20,000 people in Turkey - only one-fourth as many as saw it in France. His current Cannes winner, Three Monkeys, has yet to sell to Turkish TV, which has deemed it too arty...