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Several Presidents have been renowned for their magnetism, which we think of as a fortunate personal trait, like good looks. But deploying charm and projecting it are histrionic skills. Franklin D. Roosevelt's appeal was heightened by the polio that crippled him in 1921. He developed the ability to make people forget his leg braces and feel at ease in his presence. Those who met him when he was President, or even saw his million-dollar smile at a distance or in a newsreel, felt heartened. Winston Churchill said being with him was like "opening a bottle of champagne." Good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Acting Like a President | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...apparent universality of the band’s appeal strengthened the case for its selection, according to D. Zachary Tanjeloff ’08, the director of the Harvard Concert Commission, which helped plan the event...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Third Eye Blind To Headline Yardfest | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...Ohio, lawyers for a Cincinnati man convicted of incest for sleeping with his 22-year-old stepdaughter tell TIME that they will make the Lawrence decision the centerpiece of an appeal to the Supreme Court. "Our view of Lawrence is a fairly narrow one, that there is a Constitutional right under the 14th Amendment's due process clause that says private consensual activity between adults cannot be criminal," said J. Dean Carro, the lead lawyer for Paul D. Lowe, the former sheriff's deputy sentenced in 2004 to 120 days in jail after pleading no contest to incest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Incest Be Legal? | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

Part of the appeal no doubt rests in the brevity of Keret's surreal snapshots of Israel's intifadeh generations ("Just enough to read between leaving your cell and getting stopped in the showers," is how he puts it). There is also the way that his very short stories - there are 46 in Missing Kissinger, in just 211 pages - lend themselves to lengthy bouts of reflection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surreal Israel. Etgar Keret's stories plumb the strange side of the Holy Land | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

...Marcel Duchamp served as camoufleurs) were a huge influence, as were the visual disruptions of Vorticism in the Dazzle patterns applied to Allied ships during World War I. Dazzle made it hard for the enemy to get a fix - a trait that could also help explain the rebellious appeal of camouflage patterns since the 1980s for fashion designers like Versace and Jean-Paul Gaultier, and pop idols from the Clash to Madonna. Whatever the angle, "Camouflage" is a must-see. www.iwm.org.uk

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Concealment | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

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