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Word: charisma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2010-2019
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Election season was in full swing, and students at Harvard and across the nation were passionately supporting a youthful candidate for president who spoke to them with eloquence and charisma, and who even carried a Harvard degree. Cambridge hosted heated debates, partisan speakers, and plenty of student volunteers distributing leaflets and voter registration information. Issues ranging from the candidates’ stances on national security to levels of political experience were discussed in classrooms and common rooms across campus...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard at the New Frontier | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Instead, though, shopping puts too much weight on the one criterion of charisma. Students should be making their decisions on more overriding considerations, like their interest in the subject. Conveniently, these are considerations that a student can research through a medium other than shopping. The reading list? That’s online. Course goals? Also online, often in the same detail that the professor spends on it for an hour on the first day. “Does this class have a midterm?” Why, yes, if you had looked online, you’d know that...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: Close Up Shopping | 4/21/2010 | See Source »

...documentary tells the real truth of Mr. Brainwash’s success: a success due not to creativity, but to careful marketing. The charisma of street art is its ideology, its opposition to the establishment of gallery art. It is art we all can appreciate and we all can contribute...

Author: By Sarah L. Hopkinson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Exit Through The Gift Shop | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

Ellison stressed that in the end, it’s our confidence, character, and charisma that keep us sexy to someone else...

Author: By Kristen L. Cronon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Organic Sex Appeal | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...names - Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich - are cannily leaving the door open for a run, but are spending far more time on personal profitmaking enterprises than presidential campaign foundation building. And Republican élites are just as ambivalent about this trio. Palin, Huckabee and Gingrich may boast charisma and obvious appeal, but each are saddled with their own mess of flaws and failings that render them for now decidedly questionable challengers to Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking On Obama in '12 — Tougher Than You Think | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

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