Word: sleight
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...equine - his feet barely touching the ground as he skims the surface of issues. He conveys a sense of power and fluency - and fun. He has a self-deprecating sense of humor and uses it to good effect. But his speed of delivery also has an element of sleight of hand. He moves so quickly, it's often hard to notice that there's not much nutrition being offered and much that is being avoided. He never mentions Iraq in his stump speech. He talks - well, offers one sentence - about the challenge of "global Islamic jihad." And because he doesn...
Nationally about 1 in 3 high school students quits school. Among black and Hispanic students, the rate is closer to 50%. For decades, school districts obscured the hemorrhaging with sleight of hand--using misleading formulas to calculate graduation rates and not bothering to track the kids who fell through the cracks. Getting a more honest accounting became a top priority for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was instrumental in persuading the Governors of all 50 states to agree in 2005 to start measuring graduation rates in a fair and consistent way. Ask Melinda Gates to name the foundation...
...Sleight of Veritas Science Center...
...incandescent as worshipers press forward to light their candles from the so-called "heavenly fire." Sometimes it isn't just the candles that catch fire - beards and hair crackle spectacularly in the chaotic crush around the flame-bearing priests. Skeptics denounce the ritual as a 1,200-year-old sleight-of-hand whose secret is passed from one generation of high priests to the next. But for the thousands of gathered worshipers, it was proof of God's existence and Christ's resurrection...
...latest sleight-of-foot stunt is a dance-and-music (no dialogue) version of Edward Scissorhands , wowing them at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through Mar. 31, before moving on to Toronto, St. Paul, Denver and Seattle next month...