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...pursuit of a career. New Yorker Judy Rosenblum tried that path. After retiring at 55 from teaching elementary school in Cedarhurst, N.Y., she decided to go to art school. "It was an unknown for me," she says. "I never in my life thought I could paint. It was like magic." She found that she could exhibit and sell her paintings. Buoyed by this success, she took courses to learn how to play bridge. Then, building on her teaching expertise, she enrolled in a class on how to teach the game, which she now does during her winters in Florida...
...Magic Johnson had his talk show. MICHAEL JORDAN had the Wizards. After 3 1/2 seasons at the helm of Washington's aggressively mediocre NBA team (and two seasons as the team's oldest and best player), Jordan got his walking papers last week in a rage-filled, 18min. meeting with Wizards' owner Abe Pollin. Jordan argued that as the greatest player in the history of the game--and as the man whose return to the court lined Pollin's pockets with $30 million of unanticipated revenue--he deserved more time to turn things around. Pollin countered that Jordan...
...years of truce initiatives have come to naught, and if anything, the conflict is even more intractable now. The "roadmap" concept may be an attempt to bridge Israeli and Palestinian concerns by linking a cease-fire to a "political horizon" for Palestinian statehood, but it contains no new magic formula for resolving the basic standoff over security...
...Kashmiris themselves, violence has divided and scattered what was once a close-knit Himalayan community. In their giddier moments, Muslim Kashmiris dreamed that a magic wand would, with one swish, eliminate both India and Pakistan from their lives, permitting them to create an independent state. Hindu Kashmiris, meanwhile, driven from the Muslim-majority valley by terrorism, wished for a Hindu homeland. However, though Kashmiris might be unfortunate, or romantic, they are not fools. They now realize that independence will not suddenly become an option today. Instead, they, along with the Indians and Pakistanis, should seek to effectively end the partition...
...anymore. Nowadays, faced with the discomfort of these roads and bridges, most tourists limit themselves to two or three days exploring Angkor Wat and other sites within easy reach of Siem Reap and its proliferating hotels. If your idea of Cambodian magic is a scrum for vantage points, against the deflating sound of clicking cameras and revving tour coaches, and curtailed by the need to be back at the hotel bar by nightfall, then fine. But if you want to leave the tourist pack behind, you have no choice but to hit the awful dirt...