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Most professional magicians scoff at Blaine's dime-store bag of tricks: making a chosen card rise out of a deck or reappear after being torn to pieces. But in magic, style is everything, and Blaine's intense, streetwise persona is nothing like your typical gabby Vegas showman in a cape. His deceptively low-key, ultracool manner leaves spectators more amazed than if he'd razzle-dazzled...
...sages and celebrities. The forthcoming John F. Kennedy: A Journey to Camelot by Paul Werth will be read by Sidney Poitier and Caroline Kennedy. Slightly less ritzy (intended, perhaps, to be played in Dodge pickups instead of Lexuses) is Waylon Jennings' rendition of Waylon: An Autobiography. To those who scoff at such books as "ear candy," Seth D. Gershel, publisher of Simon & Schuster Audio, has a snappy answer: "If you'd rather be counting from 1 to 10 over and over again while driving, that's your preference...
...never been a fan of big government projects, yet I have come to conclusion that the Big Dig, in spite of its poor implementation and its many accompanying nuisances, is a necessary investment that will help maintain the city's prosperity well into the next century. Although I still scoff at the ridiculously bloated bureaucracy that is Massachusetts state government, it is cooperative efforts between the city and the suburbs, such as the MBTA and the Metropolitan District Commission (which maintains many of Boston's parks and historic sites), that have helped keep downtown Boston the center of the region...
...conservatives disagree over welfare, compromise is possible because no fundamental principle is at stake. Abortion is different. Is a fetus a human life? If you believe it isn't, a world of social policy possibilities opens up before you. If you believe it is and you don't scoff at the sanctity of human life, you are in a quandary...
...civilians had taken refuge from Israeli attacks at several peacekeeping posts. "I don't want to believe it was deliberate," Captain Lindvall said of the slaughter. "But if it was a mistake, it was an inexcusable mistake. There has been a U.N. position there since 1978." Even some Israelis scoff at official disclaimers. "How the hell could they not have known?" asks an official. "If they know the location of one radio transmitter in a single apartment in the middle of Beirut, you think they don't know there are 500 civilians at that base...