Word: appealing
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Several undergraduates, including Lamelle D. Rawlins '99, former president of the Undergraduate Council, honored Annan with speeches of tribute. Rawlins gave a spirited appeal, calling Harvard students and the American people to look outside the borders of their own immediate circumstances and urging us to concern ourselves with critical events and issues that take place beyond the gates of Harvard...
Excavations can pose tricky dilemmas. Who wouldn't want to hear a new Beatles song, and yet who would want to hear Free as a Bird more than once? Sometimes the appeal is more than mere novelty: a discarded thought can be more revealing, more intimate than a finished work; it's like catching an old friend off guard. A yen for uncooked art, for malleable art, is also more in keeping with our crude, relativistic times...
...Bill Clinton had learned his lesson or put things right with God, but what his excuse was for his gross stupidity. Embattled on the legal and political fronts, the White House hasn't addressed this issue yet, which may be a mistake. If part of Clinton's charisma and appeal has stemmed from his James Bondish savoir faire--the impression he leaves of a double life well executed--what some people might find hardest to forgive aren't his falsehoods and inappropriate gropings, but his lollapalooza lapses of animal cunning...
...CapShare 910 ($700, available in December) uses a wireless infrared port to transmit the scanned pages to some notebook computers, which can then be used to fax or e-mail the text. While the lightweight CapShare is easy to use, its reliance on infrared connections could limit its appeal...
...official Republican rationale for the wholesale release is that it would all be leaked anyway. It's a valid concern. But clearly, the sight of the President squirming under the hot lights -- and splitting some extemely fine legal hairs -- is expected to appeal to the horse sense of ordinary Americans, who know a lie when they see and hear one, no matter what David Kendall says. The supporting documents, meanwhile, will be aimed more at the groin. Much of material Starr left out of his report is, as Rep. Chris Cannon of Utah described it, "stuff that makes me blush...