Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the more unusual groups include the Wizard of AIDS, a theater group that attempts to educate high school students about AIDS and methods to prevent the spread...
Serb fairy tales often revolve around the story of an evil wizard who can be defeated only by finding his hidden source of power and destroying it. Modern Serbia has no shortage of wicked sorcerers who fit that archetype, and first among them is Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. In the late 1980s Milosevic loosed chaos upon the former Yugoslavia by conjuring up the ghosts of Balkan nationalism. The four years of war that followed dismembered the country, killed some 100,000 civilians and turned the President into an international pariah. Within Serbia, however, his iron rule remained unchallenged--until last...
...make public appearances as the voice behind Snow White, believing that it would spoil the illusion. Instead, demonstrating a cheery optimism that would have done Snow White proud, Caselotti pursued her own path, taking up opera as a professional singer, playing a bit part in "The Wizard of Oz" and investing in real estate and the stock market...
What Congress member or Administration official dares inform these people that for years they have been getting more than they deserved? "Everyone right now is standing like the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, pointing in both directions and looking to see who goes first," says Ari Fleischer, spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee. "Clearly this reform will not be successful without President Clinton's leadership," says William Roth, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Clinton, however, has only asked his economic team to evaluate the report of that panel, which was headed by Michael Boskin...
...classic signs that the market has nowhere to go but down: last spring's record $1.45 million price tag for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, or mounting margin debt in brokerage accounts, or a raft of fast-selling new investment books--including at least three about wizard Warren Buffet...