Word: charme
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...back to the Yard, I realized what many before me have, and what many to follow certainly will: that the Quad has a definite personality all its own, replete with the charm of the rest of the University, but lacking the pretensions of that which is characteristically Harvard. I will be proud to call it home...
Putin does not promise to be an easy proposition for the West. He noted President Clinton's "charm" to an aide and regretted he did not possess any. But, he added, foreign relations must be state to state, not personal. He will pursue a hard-nosed Russia-first foreign policy, though he operates from a position of weakness. Russians advise the West to wait and see what he does before putting too much credence in his words. Western leaders have apparently decided, though, to take Putin at face value--his best face. Albright called him "a leading reformer" even before...
McCarthy was a gifted minor writer with a penetrating mind and, for all her coldness, considerable charm. She had the treacherous habit of putting real people (friends, enemies, ex-husbands), thinly disguised, into her fiction--a matter, she said, of baking real plums into an imaginary cake. Her unusual compulsion to tell the truth could also be an instrument of vicious distortion. The technique proved lucrative with The Group, her best-selling 1963 novel of her classmates at Vassar and their subsequent lives...
...story using up all that space? In this day and age of unlimited Internet access and an explosion in the number of cable- and satellite-TV channels available, I would expect you to take the lead with in-depth, responsible reporting of important news events that transcend the bubbly charm of Tinseltown. VALENTIN VASILEV Jerusalem...
...Charade; nothing of the work for UNICEF. Still, what's onscreen fascinates because of the life itself and, at bottom, because of the dead-on impersonation by Jennifer Love Hewitt. Hepburn's accent; her posture; her chin-down, eyebrows-up way with a line--Hewitt has it all, and charm to boot. Delicious...