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Turner has had a flamboyant lifestyle, and his true character is difficult to fathom. He can put on the charm or turn rude and overbearing. The father of five, including a son named Rhett, he preaches family values yet is celebrated in Alanta as one who does not always practice them. He works obsessively but just as easily becomes a raucous, tobacco-chewing, beer-swigging good ole boy. A yachtsman who defended the America's Cup in 1977 and won the title Captain Outrageous, Turner showed up at a victory press conference roaring drunk and tugging at a bottle...
...until 1964, when she abdicated in favor of her son Grand Duke Jean, the present head of state; at Fischbach Castle near Luxembourg City. Chosen in a special post-World War I plebiscite to replace her German-leaning older sister, she tended to her largely ceremonial duties with intelligence, charm and a lack of pomp. During World War II, her radio broadcasts from exile in Great Britain did much to build morale. Afterward, she helped guide her tiny principality (998 sq. mi., pop. 365,000), wedged between West Germany, France and Belgium, to high living standards, enlightened social policies...
...network's execs are hoping Lieberman will help carry the franchise forward. "We look at thousands of tapes, trying to find new cooking stars," says Bob Tuschman, the Food Network's director of daytime programming, who was impressed by Lieberman's boy-wonder cooking skills and boy-next-door charm. "The moment we saw him, we just knew. He makes incredible food and has pop-star looks. We're already hearing from moms wanting to set him up with their daughters...
...charismatic are Honduras' OSCAR RODRIGUEZ MARADIAGA and Austria's CHRISTOPH SCHONBORN. The first is a polymath with a c.v. that includes eight languages, debt-relief work with the rock star Bono, some music playing of his own and what an observer calls an "effervescence." The second possesses a different charm (see box). The cosmopolitan scion of generations of European and Catholic nobility, he has what John Allen, author of Conclave, called a "princely bearing," which has kept him in good stead among world leaders. Never before have musical chops and impressive posture--as opposed to the men's formidable professional...
...like Premji and politicians like Chidambaram are tactically using the Chinese threat to turn up the heat on those who are blocking reform. In a country where politicians and bureaucrats still use shibboleths accumulated over a half-century of socialism to obstruct progress, the word China works like a charm. After all, which self-respecting Indian minister looks forward to being humiliated once more by his Chinese counterpart at the next international powwow? That's why Wen, perceived as the emissary of an ominous economic rival, does India so much more good than as the head of a chummy trading...