Word: charme
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Sometimes the appetizer is more fun than the main course. Where the Mission: Impossible movies trade in explosions and vertiginous high-wire feats, the brilliantly implausible TV version used charm and DIY ingenuity. Greg Morris and Peter Graves, both center, and the Impossible Missions Force capture international drug smugglers, weapons dealers and corrupt government officials, often with little more than an eye patch, a lady, a drill and lots of nerve...
...largely a mystery. It is clear that she is a woman accustomed to being in a man’s world: first as a historian of the antebellum South, then as an administrator, and now as a woman in a 367-year succession of 27 men. And her scholarship, charm, judgment, fundraising ability, administrative skill, and vision were all abundantly on display during her six years as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.Yet Massachusetts Hall is a far cry from Fay House. The challenges Faust faces as president—from laying the groundwork for a campus...
Whatever junior pitcher Shelly Madick did during the offseason to bounce back from her injury-plagued 2006 season, it worked like a charm. Madick led the Ivy League this past season with a 1.50 ERA, was second with 148 strikeouts, and compiled a 16-6 record, helping lead Harvard to its first Ivy League title since 2001. For her performance, she was unanimously selected both to the All-Ivy First Team and as the league’s Pitcher of the Year. She was also named to the All-Northeast Region Second Team. “I was healthy this...
Suchde proved that the fourth time can be the charm, capturing the individual title in the most improbable run of his Crimson career...
...other night, while making my way back home past the chain-store charm of the Square, I stopped to have a conversation with a crippled man on the corner of JFK Street...