Word: magicians
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...magician on how to attack differenial equations,” said McKay Professor of Engineering Frederick H. Abernathy. “He wrote textbooks that most people find too hard...
...Philippines, Efren is known simply as "The Magician," or "Bata," Tagalog for "Kid." Since revealing himself in Texas, Reyes has toured the world, winning, dazz-ling, realigning the game's balance of power and becoming his country's sole bona fide international sports superstar. Efren's exploits are like possessions, bundled up by his countrymen as stories to be shared or traded. The government awarded him the Philippine Legion of Honor in 1999 and his face, along with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's, greets arrivals at Manila's airport. Pool cues have became a hot accessory and new halls have...
...days before. The Israelis also shot up various facilities of Arafat's Palestinian Authority, deployed troops and armor within striking distance of the office in the West Bank city of Ramallah where Arafat was working, and later bombed the same bureau. It was a bit like the magician's trick of tossing knives so that they just miss the target. Israel's message to Arafat was clear: we brought you here, and we can take...
American espionage was a clumsy toddler at first. (Some think it has not improved much with age and astronomical budgets.) F.D.R., magician and dissembler, improvised spy systems formal and informal. In the official line, he had the military's separate intelligence-gathering operations and the help of byzantine J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI. In 1940 the Army's Signal Intelligence Service, quartered at Arlington Hall in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, broke the top-secret Japanese Purple code, meaning, as Persico says, that with the decryptions, dubbed Magic, "the Tokyo foreign office might as well have placed F.D.R...
Langer, who in lives in the Boston suburbs with his wife and three children and throws an annual barbecue for his lab group at his beach house on Cape Cod, is something of an amateur magician. Folkman, Langer's original mentor, remains one of his biggest fans. "He's a true genius," says Folkman. "He sees answers to problems in such unique ways you can't trace the steps he took." In other words, he's very good at pulling rabbits out of hats...