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...just 43 in. tall and dependent on dialysis and a battery of medications. In addition, family troubles had rendered him angry and very lonely. For more than a year, the C.C.U. "doctors" spent time with the teenager, who rarely talked and refused to walk. Then one day comic magician Mark Mitton taught him a "mind-reading" card game, and Carmelo began to open up. The boy took great pride in fooling one of his real doctors with the card trick. Mitton later said Carmelo was a good enough actor to join C.C.U., except "we've got a problem because...
...Long Island suburb in 1959 could use this as a blueprint. Hoffman introduces us to Nora Silk as she is moving into a little box of a home, so much like the others "that children wandered into the wrong house for cookies and milk." Her feckless husband, a magician who cannot even get hired for children's birthday parties, has left her and fled to Las Vegas, where he hopes to perfect his lounge act. Towing Billy, her eight-year-old who sometimes wore a look so awful "complete strangers had to fight off the urge to smack...
Like Prospero, Stern is a magician who confronts unruly influences in a brave new world. The Midwestern Caliban is played by Hartnell, husband of Stern's sister and his most troublesome client -- a "small-town boy made good, gone bad." To see him on the floor of the commodity exchange is to observe a force of nature: "He stepped into the tiered levels of the pits, shaking hands and tossing greetings like Frank Sinatra onstage, commanding the same reverence, or, in some quarters, subverted loathing." When he admits, "I've always wanted to do what other people wouldn't," Stern...
...more than 1 million investors, Peter Lynch was a magician, a modern alchemist who transmuted their modest savings into solid wealth. Since Lynch began running the then tiny Fidelity Magellan fund in 1977, its shares have surged 25-fold in value -- far more than the fourfold gain for the Dow Jones industrial average during the same period or the increase for any other mutual fund. Lynch, 46, built Boston-based Magellan from a $22 million operation into a $13.3 billion monster, the world's biggest and most celebrated fund. And he did it the old-fashioned way, through 13-hour...
...fantastic--he was a magician out there," Harvard forward Ted Donato said. "He kept his end of the bargain, but we didn't keep ours." HARVARD MEN'S HOCKEY (13-12-1 Overall, 12-9-1 ECAC...