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...burying his mother outside her dust-blown shack when the traveling show rolls by. There's more to Ben than he lets on (he can heal the sick by touch), and also more to this carnival. Besides the hootchy-kootchy dancers and bearded lady, there's a real psychic and a comatose but sentient telepath; and Samson answers to an unseen superior known only as "Management," who orders him to hire Ben as a roustabout because "he was expected." Meanwhile, in California, ambitious minister Brother Justin Crowe (Clancy Brown) is also showing off supernatural muscle: when a woman steals from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HBO's Cirque du So-So | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...that job you need to be mentally disturbed; you need psychic disturbances." SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, who has faced a litany of corruption charges, referring to prosecuting judges in his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Sep. 15, 2003 | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...sound as if psychographics and the Psychic Friends Network have a lot in common. But LifeMatrix's proponents say the system isn't guesswork. A variety of inputs, including public- opinion polls and media usage, is used to create categories that accurately reflect personality types. Ed Keller, president of RoperASW, says companies applying LifeMatrix to their customer databases will have far greater success in predicting what those customers will buy. Keller says researchers using demographic data alone can correctly guess what kind of car an individual will buy only 18% of the time. But "when you combine people's attitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: Sell It to the Psyche | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...know what's going to happen next in medicine, technology and the arts, but only as it applies to my health, my gadgets and my career. So I tried to find out what I've got coming over the next two years. I started with Char Margolis, Los Angeles' psychic to the stars and the author of Questions from Earth, Answers from Heaven. After a whole lot of time talking about which letters the names of my family and friends start with--which I already knew--she got me to tell her that my wife Cassandra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next for Me | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

...that job you need to be mentally disturbed; you need psychic disturbances." SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, who has faced a litany of corruption charges, referring to prosecuting judges in his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

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