A material wand makes the building into a sort of Frank Gehry thing that reflects light in all directions.

Even now, the celebrated Betty Bigombe has not used a magic wand to bring Kony to the negotiating table.

Paul is the designer of this wand, and maybe its easiest for him to come over here and tell me in person what's going on.

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.

When I was in Huntington, trying to get a few things to work when they weren't, I thought If I had a magic wand, what would I do? And I thought, You know what?

The long term success of the economy, and its capacity to build wealth and jobs, depends on productivity gains, which in turn depend on technical and organizational innovation. Governments cannot just conjure that up by waving a magic wand.

America s fiscal and external deficits will not disappear just because the chief magician at the Federal Reserve waves his wand and says abracadabra. On the contrary, the longer Greenspan plays down America s dangerous macroeconomic imbalances with happy talk, the more damage they will ultimately inflict on the global economy.

Establishing a banking union by 2013 will not give Europe a magic wand with which to wave away the economic crisis overnight but it is a major and crucial step to restoring the confidence of Europe s citizens, international partners, and investors. It will ensure financial stability, increase transparency, make the banking sector accountable, and protect taxpayers money.