Word: charming
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...successes and institute substantial changes if he or she learns from the mistakes Summers made in management style. A successful leader must know when to offer the carrot and when to use the stick. Summers only wielded a stick. If the next president of Harvard balances forcefulness with charm, Harvard will be able to transform itself so that it can remain the preeminent university...
...narrow agenda of social cohesion, free enterprise and wealth accumulation was now a mass movement. And when the U.S. was attacked by terrorists and further calamity threatened, Howard became sterner and more somber - someone who would see the challenge through. His moment arrived. Instinctively, he did not try to charm. Polling wasn't necessary for him to understand where Middle Australia had come to rest...
...largest home builders, is racing to start up to 10,000 Orleans-style houses just across the parish line, as well as 58 lots downtown. Bruce Karatz, CEO of California-based KB Home, promises that the houses "will have the New Orleans feel. New Orleans has a certain charm, a unique style and colors...
...Stone (angry at Bush), Warren Beatty ("intelligent and precise"), Norman Mailer (at 82, "eyes fixed on eternity"), Samuel Huntington (whose Hispanophobia alarms him) and Woody Allen who, when Lévy gets personal, snaps, "She's not my daughter." Lévy also gets personal with ordinary Americans, who charm him with their politeness, pragmatism and, on occasion, intelligence. He marvels at the patience of passengers queuing at an airport (the French would be murdering each other to get ahead). And when a stone-faced policeman collars Lévy for urinating alongside a busy highway, a hallowed Gallic custom...
...sexual comedy which rarely acknowledges tactful boundaries. He gets dirty right off the bat, riffing on internet pornography and moving from there to topics that include his favorite sexual positions and his love of vaginas. Part of “Super Retardo’s” somewhat limited charm is a function of its live recording; as the audience laughs heartily, Fatel—who performed at last fall’s “Comedians for a Cause” at Harvard—picks a girl out of the crowd whom he will turn to with assorted...