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David Blaine desperately wants to be famous. After spotting Al Pacino in a Manhattan restaurant, the 24-year-old magician goes right over to introduce himself and do a card trick--but before he can start, Pacino brushes him off. Undaunted, Blaine tries again a few minutes later, sliding a deck out of his jeans pocket. "Pick a card," he says, quickly persuading the actor not only to count out 10 other cards but to sit on them as well. When the chosen card somehow "jumps" to his stack, Pacino pounds his fist on the table. "That is a beautiful...
...award-winning calendar highlighted objects from the museum's collection, including the skeleton of twins fused at the head and a wax model of a patient with syphilitic leukoplakia of the tongue (above). The calendar sold thousands of copies and won fans as diverse as the Las Vegas magician Teller (of Penn & Teller) and Harvard University professor of biology Stephen Jay Gould, who calls them "works of art." The calendars earned as much as $15,000 annually for the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, of which the Mutter is a part...
...criminals use the same buzzphrases these days, they probably get them from TV, like everyone else. One week on Friends, when David Schwimmer's all-thumbs buddies offered to baby-sit his infant son, he said, "I don't think so"; an hour later, Jerry Seinfeld told an unctuous magician who asked to borrow him for a trick, "I don't think...
With China foreign policy, it is as with the magician: always keep your eye on the other hand. An ASEAN meeting in Paris of Asia-Pacific powers concluded pleasantly last week with quick resolution of the membership status of China and Taiwan. The document accords Taiwan inferior membership in the group, upon which China had insisted, but analysts were nevertheless encouraged. "We thought we would fight like cats and dogs on the statement," said Carolina Hernandez, President of the Institute of Strategic and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines, "but there was agreement on the first draft...
...Albany, the hometown he once described as an "improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels." The aforementioned now rub elbows and knock heads in a novel that once more demonstrates the author's passion for place and his skill as a literary magician. How else should one describe a writer who moves effortlessly through time and who can summon ghostly characters from previous books to play full-blooded roles in his latest work...