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...Alastair is the one most responsible that they have this reputation for mendacity, and have made so many unnecessary enemies." In person Campbell seems an unlikely Goebbels. Breezy, articulate, charismatic, accomplished on the bagpipes and a lifelong supporter of the hapless Burnley football club, he gives off a blokish charm and confidence. Veteran reporters he has publicly tongue-lashed and undercut by leaking to competitors still tend to like him personally. As chief political reporter for Robert Maxwell's pro-Labour Daily Mirror when Neil Kinnock was party leader, Campbell became so close to Kinnock that he helped write...
...shoving aside Shakespeare and Stoppard on the West End (often with big-name U.S. stars in the cast) seem to be reveling in the worst of the U.S. In the current hit revival of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Matthew Perry and Hank Azaria leave all their charm at passport control as they add an extra layer of bile to Mamet's caustic portrait of the battle of the sexes in the Midwestern heartland...
...went straight into the Army and was assigned to Fort Bragg. When he wasn't training, he could often be found at the local toy store playing with kids in the aisles. In Iraq, similarly, he told his family he enjoyed handing out candy to children. His ability to charm crowds would have served him well in his other big ambition: to become U.S. President. (His niece Tasia, 3, called him Uncle America.) Keith was killed when a roadside bomb exploded while he was on patrol in Baghdad. He had requested to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. --Reported...
...such places in pre-Castro Cuba. Segundo, born Maximo Francisco Repilado Mu?oz in Siboney, Cuba, was the grandson of a freed slave. When fame came knocking on his door again, I think Segundo did not mind becoming another feather in Castro's utopian hat, adding poetry and charm to the drier accomplishments of universal health care, equal job opportunity, and subsidized education...
Atlanta has just enough big-city bustle to consider itself cosmopolitan, and just enough Southern Charm to say “y’all come back now” and really mean it. They call it “the city too busy to hate...