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Kohl brought his plans to Washington when he visited the White House last November. While there has been much confusion and some dispute between the two capitals over just what was said between Reagan and the Chancellor, there is no doubt that Kohl made an emotional appeal for the President to join him in appearing at a German military cemetery. Kohl had clasped hands on Sept. 22 with France's President François Mitterrand at a World War I cemetery in Verdun, where German as well as French soldiers are buried, and had found it a gratifying experience. Kohl mentioned...
...least 12% ahead of the previous year's, whereas classical-CD sales in the same period have been more or less flat. With DVD players now in 70 million U.S. households and more and more people hooking up high-quality speakers or surround sound to their entertainment systems, the appeal of DVDs can only grow...
Indeed, this new setting is the appeal the MFA is hoping concert-goers will latch onto. The museum’s 380-seat theatre, part of a modern expansion designed by I.M. Pei in 1981, provides an intimate, seated space in which to enjoy serene sounds...
States are shaping their sales pitches to appeal to the Defense chief's drive to transform the military into a nimbler high-tech force that can battle stateless threats like al-Qaeda. South Carolina is touting Shaw Air Force Base as the perfect staging area for F-16s to guard the East Coast from a terrorist air attack. Massachusetts insists that Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford and the Army's research center in Natick are ideal for studying the high-tech hardware Rumsfeld covets, since they're close to science centers like M.I.T. The state also hopes that...
...important is friendliness. This may seem obvious, but "if you are not friendly," he says, "you will have to work exponentially harder to be likeable." The second is relevance: "If you possess a skill that will help someone complete a task, you are relevant to that person. If you appeal to someone's need to laugh, your relevance is your sense of humor." Third comes empathy: Slow down and walk a mile in your colleagues' wing tips. Finally, keep it real. Your colleagues can spot a phony...