Word: appealing
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...SPEAK UP Those who not only join network groups but also stand and deliver before them are in effect advertising their expertise. Wisnik, for example, conducts legal training seminars through the United Jewish Appeal. Attorneys pay a fee to attend the seminars, which raise money for the charity, and Wisnik benefits through client referrals. But what really keeps her going is gratitude. The u.j.a. paid for Wisnik, her parents and her brother to emigrate to the U.S. from Poland 30 years...
What's the appeal? On one level a tale of plangent melodrama: a group with three Jewish and three Gentile members trying to stand tall and cool under the Nazi boot. The Comedian Harmonists had some friends in high places, including Gauleiter Julius Streicher. At one concert a punk in the balcony shouted venom about the dirty Jews, but the Nazi brass in the front rows stood and cheered the group until the punk shut...
...addition to the meeting with Feinberg, Taylor had a separate conversation on Tuesday with Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson '60. Nesson has served as an informal adviser to Berkowitz since 1997, when the associate professor began his appeal of President Neil L. Rudenstine's decision not to award him tenure...
...According to the University's "Guidelines for the Resolution of Faculty Grievances," unless the Docket Committee finds the grievance to be "clearly without merit," Berkowitz's appeal must be passed on to an ad hoc committee, which would be responsible for investigating and resolving the complaint...
...this mind-numbing noise a result of a boy's attempt at overcompensation for lack of talent? Not exactly. There's no denying the appeal of a phenom who can do no wrong. We all get caught up in the fervor of manufactured girl/boy toys like New Kids on the Block or the Spice Girls, but it would be a shame for Lang to be boxed into that category. He seems to be the real deal, what with his gravely beyond-his-years voice which emotes the sagacity of a down-and-out alcoholic who has been beaten down...