Word: charming
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...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...
While many undergraduates expressed vocal frustration over the lack of access to the QRAC for the remainder of the semester as construction takes place, most of the dance community was overjoyed. Though personally saddened by the upcoming loss of the Rieman Center and its quirky charm, in seeing construction begin I was glad to know that dance would still have a home at Harvard...
Despite its focus on a particular group of ladies, Beauty Shop is rooted in frank conversations that we could be having with our own packs of friends. In spite of some weaknesses, there is an undeniable charm to the actors, each of whom create a distinct character with a significant role in the film’s entertaining, side-splitting, and pertinent discussions of sexuality, race, and body image...