Word: charme
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...Tuesday afternoon, Jeffords walked into the Oval Office. Bush summoned all his charm. "I'd like you to stay in our party," he pleaded. Has the White House done anything to push you out? No, Jeffords replied politely, but the party is ignoring the moderates. On important issues like education and the environment, conservatives are running the show, Jeffords warned, and if Bush didn't move to the center, he would be a one-term President. "I hear you, I hear you," Bush answered. Jeffords promised to ponder, but Bush suspected the decision had been made. "I don't think...
Even in middle age, White House aides can be full of themselves. But where was the mythical Bush charm, so potent it tamed the entire Texas legislature? In the Oval Office--the most seductive room on earth--with the stakes as high as they get, Bush couldn't persuade the Senator to stay with the party the Jeffords family had thrived in for three generations. It turns out that Bush reserves his charm for those who agree with him or are outright opponents. Wooing those who, by rights, should already be under your thumb looks wimpish. For them, how about...
...merit and his charm that he wrote from deep within his community. There is, or used to be, a kind of Indian writer who used many italics and, for the excitement, had a glossary of perfectly simple local words at the back of his book. Narayan never did that. He explains little or nothing; he takes everything about his people and their little town for granted; there is no distance between the writer and his material. It is what still distinguishes him from most Indian writers. It is a subtle point, this question of the writer's distance; but what...
...prop for the conservatives in his party. The latest Japanese government has its share of opacity too. It arrived in office four weeks ago to the highest hopes of any government in the past decade. Koizumi is a charismatic reformer who speaks his mind and has a plastic, Clintonian charm. His arrival represented a victory over the old-line politicos who have run Japan for decades. And in an early sign of his thinking, he has turned over economic-policy management not to the Ministry of Finance, an organization that is the ne plus ultra of bureaucratic lethargy and intellectual...
Next I psyched myself up to charm a group of five bigger kids, ages 8 to 13, including one boy who could barely look at me. Uh-oh. What's more, the badly illuminated room we were sitting in underscored Advance's biggest flaw: the screen is not lighted. Sure, you can buy an external light (Nyko's Worm Light is $10), but you shouldn't have to. Once we turned up the lights, Jokim volunteered that with Advance, "you move quicker and you can jump higher. It looks like a TV." Rea fell for Ubi Soft's Rayman, which...