Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Pretty smart for a universal remote, the 676 relies on a Web wizard to get you set up, instead of making you punch in those annoying codes. Three changeable color plates are included. logitech.com...
...hope with all my heart that John Kerry wins the election. It's not that I think he would be a wizard who could put everything right. Conditions would probably remain pretty much the same, but I think Kerry would be able to govern more gracefully than President Bush has. If Americans give Bush another four years, the U.S. will have the President it deserves. If disenchanted citizens fail to vote for change, they will have absolutely no right to complain...
...name for the technique) can be quite potent. Asking a presidential candidate to run a campaign without a focus group is like asking a physician to reach a diagnosis without a stethoscope. Candidates should view a focus group as a simple tool, not a murky crystal ball requiring a wizard to decipher it. Gary Blackton Portland, Oregon, U.S. Klein argued that polling has become "less scientific and more speculative. It means polls should be trusted only to verify broad shifts ... rather than specific point spreads." Even this may be optimistic, since the flaws in polls may be systemic...
Take polling, please. The vast majority of Americans--as many as 90%, pollsters have told me privately--refuse to answer questions when the wizard calls (although the number is marginally better this hot election year). People who use cell phones exclusively, mostly younger voters, are unreachable. The wizards say they can correct for these things, by "weighting" their polls--that is, giving disproportionate weight to members of underrepresented groups like young people. But surely that makes polling less scientific and more speculative. It means polls should be trusted only to verify broad shiftsBush moved ahead in the presidential race after...
...Captain is every bit as much an animated film as Shark Tale. Kerry Conran's script has a plot lifted and sifted from lots of '30s films--The Wizard of Oz, Lost Horizon and a dozen sassy newspaper comedies. But the technique is the star here: Conran's devising of a Deco-meets-delirium universe that he projected onto a blue screen, in front of which the game, clueless stars--Jude Law as the intrepid flyboy, Gwyneth Paltrow as a plucky news gal--recited their lines...