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...Gore knew he was coming off a bad week, so he wasted little time trying to charm the 165 United Auto Workers union leaders he met last Monday in a smoke-choked Des Moines, Iowa, hotel conference room. "I know what you can do. You know why I'm here," he said. "We need to talk." But as he spoke, an audience that started out polite but skeptical turned hostile. Gore twice deflected questions about whether the global-warming treaty he championed would send jobs overseas and instead served up encomiums about saving the planet. Then Mike Edwards, the assembly...
Certainly his Kosovo strategy has been confounding. In part, says a U.S. official, Milosevic seems closed off to reality. When negotiating, he relies on a mix of charm and tirades about the victimization of the Serbs. Says the official: "Every second sentence is wrong or a lie. He pours out his soul, but you don't know if he believes all that rubbish." He never says yes or no, never puts his own name to a formal agreement. While his vicious behavior in Kosovo has evoked comparison to Hitler, those who know him say Milosevic doesn't dream so large...
...scarf is an emblem of the nation's sorrow. Day after day, as she received the thousands of Jordanians who came to pay their condolences, the yanis, as it is called in Arabic, framed a spirit for which her husband was renowned: courage with an admixture of warmth and charm...
...seventh-seeded Killar--also EIWA champ--the first time was a charm, as his first trip to Nationals ended with a sixth place finish in the 165-pound class. Having missed two months of competition during the regular season because of a rib injury, Killar's All-American performance was all the more impressive...
...security policies regarding China, and yes -- how could he avoid it -- to promote an image of marital peace (?We love each other very much and we?re working on it,? said the President). ?The event,? says TIME White House Correspondent Jay Branegan, ?was part of Bill Clinton?s new charm offensive with the press...