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...when he died. Kelly Fisher, the model who told tabloids in July that Dodi had pledged to marry her even as he squired Diana, accused him of writing checks to her that bounced. Yet along with these complaints, Dodi had plenty of associates willing to testify to his charm and affability. Khashoggi described his sister's son as "very quiet about life...a nice polite man, very courteous." Says a close friend: "He was with this one and that one, but he was very nice with them... Even when the story ends, he was very nice, acting like a gentleman...
...produced two sons and, even as she battled bulimia and depression, joined her husband in the service of his mother. She brought her own style to the stiff Windsor charm. In 1985 she and Charles visited the U.S. for the first time together. "At a White House dinner," says J. CARTER BROWN, who was director of the National Gallery of Art, "she was seated next to Mikhail Baryshnikov. It was customary to take the menu cards that were at each seat and pass them around to everyone at the table to autograph. When Baryshnikov...
Cellucci, or Cell-ooch as many aides affectionately refer to the new governor, is not winning urban voters with Weld's charm. Instead, he is doing it with a sort of shared culture...
...days as dean of students at Princeton, Harvard's President Neil L. Rudenstine has been known more for his powers of collegial persuasion than for shows of forceful leadership. * But in his first interview of the academic year just three weeks ago, the behind-the-scenes President kept his charm while also speaking in new terms about his "broad agenda" for the coming years and his "vision" for Harvard and its central administration. * Administration sources already said that with Rudenstine about to enter his seventh year at Harvard and the end of the capital campaign not too far away...
...This trip is a Sisyphean climb for a diplomat, and the path is well-worn by her predecessors. Tomorrow Albright meets with Arafat, presumably to insist once again on a security crackdown. One can only hope she can charm him as easily as she does Jesse Helms...