Word: charme
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Chalk it up to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's charm offensive. The Libyan leader has not only agreed to cooperate with the Pan Am trial; he has also signaled through official and unofficial channels that he is ready to do business with Washington. For starters, he has booted a number of radicals out of his country, including the infamous Abu Nidal. It may come as a surprise to those who remember the '80s--when Libya was implicated in the bombing of a discotheque in Germany that killed two American servicemen--to hear a senior U.S. official say, "At this moment, [Gaddafi...
...right for the presidency--that he is someone who possesses the mystical capacity to set a clear agenda and persuade others to follow it. It is in this respect that Bush most sees himself to be like Ronald Reagan: an optimist with a simple set of goals and the charm to sell...
...There aren't very many new books, but that's part of the charm: It's your quintessential old school library in a lot of ways," says Winifred M. Li '00, a House librarian...
Aside from its physical charm and feeling of community, the Mather House dining hall makes undergraduates feel at home through the antics of the House's youngest residents. Calder Jones and Katie Bodner both live with their resident tutor parents and spend time playing in the dining hall...
Besim Kadriu still keeps that photo in his wallet as a lucky charm, for while some people would opt for death rather than disfigurement, he considers himself a fortunate man. For one thing, a couple of centimeters farther back and that Serb bullet would have hit his brain. For another, he was reunited with Valbona and survived for three months in the care of relatives. He was still avoiding mirrors when the Kosovo Force peacekeepers arrived. But luckiest of all--and thanks to the efforts of an American doctor and a British military medic with a bag full of electronic...