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...whose emotional life is laid out for all to see, Julia Roberts still manages to connect with moviegoers in ways that few other actors have. Possessing so much information about her, and especially about her blithe but wayward romances, audiences feel they know her intimately in all her vulnerable charm; they feel protective and affectionate; and these feelings in turn invest her screen performances with a special immediacy and resonance...
...team name: the Trojans. He then affixed his school picture as a special touch. "When classmates saw the finished product, they got on board," says Bannon. "The line for lamination at the drugstore stretched around the block. And when I road tested the card, it worked like a charm...
...people in Calcutta believe the heyday of the bourse, or its roguish charm, can be restored. The city's private financiers were burned by the crash and are less willing to take risks, even for a friend. "All the trust has been lost," laments Kanta Prasad Changoiwala. Volumes on the bourse are expected to take another hit after July 2, when SEBI plans to introduce new rules?including regulated futures and options trading?aimed at controlling market hijinks. Some brokers think the Calcutta Stock Exchange may cease to exist altogether in a few months. For Changoiwala it would...
Sitting around with men in suits may be a common pastime for world leaders, but it does not play to Bush's strengths. He is better in less formal settings that let him put his personality to work. And though there are moments on the world stage when charm can carry the day, they aren't likely to occur in Brussels or, for that matter, at the European Union conference in Goteborg, Sweden, which Bush will visit Thursday. These are places where talking policy is a treasured and complex art. There and elsewhere on his trip, Bush will face European...
...next few months, the most important audience for Rumsfeld's diplomatic charm may be a fractious, self-important, Democrat-controlled body on Capitol Hill. When that exercise starts, the headlines will be about NATO enlargement and Senate worries about allied reaction to missile defense. But remember: Asia's where you'll find the real meat in the defense review...