Many of the initial reviews refer to the work as a fairy story.

Marco Tempest A magical tale

But there are no magic recipes for modernization.

We know that you do not have a magic wand ...

Lula has called this a magic moment for the Brazilian economy.

Governments cannot just conjure that up by waving a magic wand.

However, it is clear that we will not find miracle solutions.

Nor do I pretend that we have discovered the magic formula that would kick start the negotiations.

CAMBRIDGE There is no magic Keynesian bullet for the eurozone s woes.

There is no magic bullet for controlling XDR TB.

I began the class by asking students whether they would approve of my carrying out a particular magic experiment.

This must be an exception, they kept repeating, like a mantra or a prayer.

At great monarchical displays, such as the royal wedding in London, millions become enthralled by child like dreams of a fairy tale marriage.

The other 97 deficits did not magically appear.

We concede that there is no magic wand to overcome our country s problems.

Separation of powers might as well be an obeah spell. And forget about discussing our Executive arm the President, Chief Justice and Judiciary might as well be a council of wizards.

A recent study of runic magic suggests that runes were used to create magical objects such as amulets, but not in a way that would indicate that runic writing was any more inherently magical, than were other writing systems such as Latin or Greek.

In the late 1970s and 1980s, he went on to work with a ceremonial magical group known as the Ordine Della Luna, prior to his death.

you say, There's a magic word. It's called the tangent of an angle, and leave him alone. He'll figure it out.

The problem with this vision of tax reform is that it is magical an attractive illusion with no basis in reality.

Ban cannot simply reform the Security Council to reflect better the realities of this era.

Even in China there is no magic potion that can revive a loan to a defunct exporter.

Lush with primary and secondary virgin jungle, Malaysians have long held a respect for the forests. It also helps that myths, whether bearing down from the forefathers or from urban legend, has caused a lot of superstition surrounding the vast jungle of Malaysia.

Using three iPods like magical props, Marco Tempest spins a clever, surprisingly heartfelt meditation on truth and lies, art and emotion.

States could apparently almost magically create security and trust simply by imposing it.

Our cars have sensors by which they magically can see everything around them and make decisions about every aspect of driving.

And then, presto an unconventional fix magically satisfies the Fed s long neglected mandate to fight unemployment.

Football hooliganism and nationalism create a witch's brew that, until lately, has rarely been sipped in Asia.

Some Japanese still want to write or believe fairy tales about their pre war and wartime history, which has hugely complicated Japan s efforts to find a confident and lasting reconciliation with China.

The Greek government, for which restructuring is an admission of failure, continues to hope that good news will magically turn up.

The Arabic has an incantatory, almost hypnotic, quality that begs to be heard rather than read, felt more than analyzed.

We keep hoping that somehow meetings of heads of state will magically produce the policies that will rebalance world trade.

But a pure law and order response to these problems will not magically repair the damage inflicted by years of bad policy and neglect.

For example, leaves, seeds, and twigs that are white, black and red are seen as especially symbolic or magical and possess special properties.

TOKYO The closing decade of the twentieth century offered a crystal ball for anyone peering into the future of the Asia Pacific region.

These bowls could be used by any member of the Jewish community, and almost every house excavated in the Jewish settlement in Nippur had such bowls buried in them.

And I flew back to Austria, packed my bags, and, another week later, I was again on my way to Hong Kong still superstitions and thinking, Well, if that 'Winner' billboard is still up, I'm going to have a good time working here.

Eudoxus of Cnidus, who worked with Plato, developed a less mythical, more mathematical explanation of the planets' motion based on Plato's dictum stating that all phenomena in the heavens can be explained with uniform circular motion.

The first recorded use of the term was in 1499 by Johannes Trithemius in his Steganographia , a treatise on cryptography and steganography, disguised as a book on magic.

But there exists out there a very large population of people who will tell you that they have psychic, magical powers that they can predict the future, that they can make contact with the deceased.

And there's something dangerous about glamour throughout most of history. When the witches cast a magic spell on you, it was not in your self interest it was to get you to act against your interest.

It was really humbling to see for the first time, to really understand that even if I could have taken a magic wand and fixed everything, I probably would have gotten a lot wrong.

I don t have a crystal ball, but I m certain that several years from now we should be able to look back at the Georgian crisis as a turning point.

And so the thought that I started with was how do you do this, still within the boundary of the science we know today no time for science fair, no time for playing around with things or waiting for the magic battery to show up.

Caroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral themes. She performs Farther than the Sun, backed by Thomas Dolby on keyboards.