Word: charm
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...track record, it’ll be popular too. Their merger with MultiModal Applied Systems puts them on par with a company with full-time employees. The MBTA’s commuter rail schedule is within weeks of its debut. Seattle transportation will probably soon succomb to the ShuttleGirl charm too. And in a characteristic show of humanitarian aid, they are donating their services to Amtrak, which has experienced huge increases in ridership since Sept. 11. “There are so many times when you feel you can’t do anything,” Karamchandani says, referring...
...appearances can be deceptive, as U.S. troops may one day discover. A people of immense charm and courtesy, Afghans are fiercely independent, and they are fighters of astonishing stamina and resolve. The United Front soldiers could be valuable allies to U.S. forces, but even with their help, Americans would probably find the Taliban a dangerous enemy...
...other hand, Cusack is an actor of real charm. There's something watchful and soulful about him, a reluctance to go for easy, farcical frenzy that is most attractive. And Beckinsale, having survived the Pearl Harbor disaster, is all better now, both perky and mysterious. They have agreeable best pals (Jeremy Piven and Molly Shannon). Eugene Levy does a nice turn as a fussy store clerk, and one doesn't feel particularly sorry for the drippy fiances (Bridget Moynahan and John Corbett), who exist mainly to be dumped and whose roles define the word thankless. Peter Chelsom's direction...
...smooth face a juxtaposition of an aristocrat’s brow-line and a puppy’s jaw-line. With his droopy sleeves, his toussled hair, his little fits of bangs-blowing anxiety, Cusack projects a vulnerability that is effortlessly winning, a kind of real-guy-but-sweeter charm that both your grandma and your little sister could love. All of these qualities effectively serve to make Cusack the Most Likeable, or if you prefer, the Least Controversial Leading Male Actor working today. (Unless, of course, you count Tom Hanks, although for my money, with each stubble-sporting...
...military veteran, an effective Governor, a true patriot and a trusted friend." Bush, fearing resistance, had not told his Cabinet about the new post until he was ready to announce it to the world. But ex-Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, a Democrat who has tangled with Ridge, says charm is in Ridge's favor: "He's an impossible guy to stay angry...