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Clinton's new enemy is apathy. "With someone like Mondale, you had a member of the congregation," says David Axelrod, a well-regarded Chicago-based media magician advising Clinton. "Fritz knew every significant Democrat personally and helped most of them at one time or another. Then, when he needed them, they were there. Clinton's just come to town, and the organizations have a lot of local contests they consider more important than the presidency. They're ( for Clinton on paper, but the question is whether they'll work hard enough to offset a surge by someone else...
...time to give credit where credit is due. "Casino Night," sponsored by the UC, was the best-run UC event I have seen. There were professional dealers, excellent music, a good DJ and magician and a palm reader who knew the trade almost as well as "Mystic Rosa" of Harvard Square fame. The alcohol flowed cheaply and plentifully. Of the several hundred people who attended, the vast majority seemed to have a great time...
...magician, a palm-reader and several studentsinging acts worked to keep non-gamblersentertained...
HYPNOSIS. The original hocus-pocus has moved off the magician's stage and into the doctor's office. According to the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, 15,000 health professionals now practice the technique. While not a cure, making healthy suggestions to hypnotized patients, studies show, can help them heal faster, give up smoking and other bad habits, and feel less pain -- long after a session ends. One remarkable study showed that burn patients heal faster, with less pain and fewer complications, if they are put in a trance shortly after they are injured...
...this time four years ago, the Democratic presidential contenders were roundly derided as "the seven dwarfs." Ten months later, Michael Dukakis began the general election campaign with a double-digit lead and George Bush seemed doomed. "It is always volatile," says Roger Ailes, the media magician who helped guide Bush's comeback in 1988, "and it is sure to be volatile again. If 75 years of communism can collapse in three days, anything is possible, anywhere...