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...work if their writers simply took male antiheroes and dressed them up in power suits or heels. Patty Hewes, for instance, bears the marks of becoming a successful, feared litigator in a man's profession; she doesn't rely on no-you're-out-of-order outbursts but uses charm, wit and sly threats. "I have a temper too," Patty tells her young female protégé. "But I have learned when to use it." Of course, she has--and a male litigator would very likely never have had to. "It's more problematic for a woman," says Close. "There...
...last shots, it's time for the critics to take theirs, too. I have my share of pet Potter peeves - including Peeves the poltergeist, who spends his afterlife being eternally unfunny - and I'll never get a better chance to air them. I've always found the Accio charm to be ridiculously useful, to the point where it's implausible even by magical standards - "Accio Hagrid" indeed! The house-elves are strangely overpowered too: they can, for example, apparate in and out of Hogwarts, a fact that Rowling notes but doesn't really explain. With Dobby freed from his servitude...
...landscape that is Paris; or the universal language and literature of London. Perhaps the Los Angeles model of rich settlers and the Las Vegas model of transient spenders have inspired Singapore more than the three big world cities Lee mentioned. I hope that museums, creative ambiance and Old World charm are somewhere on the agenda. Nevertheless the challenge is huge, especially considering the ambitious timelines. Bala Shankar, Singapore
...under pressure by Brown's opponents inside Labour to stand against Brown for the party leadership. The Harry Potter lookalike, then Secretary of State for Environment, resisted those siren calls and will now be working spells over foreign policy as his reward. The new Foreign Secretary is unlikely to charm many neocons. Skeptical about the war in Iraq, David Miliband also protested in Cabinet last year at the British handling of the conflagration in Lebanon...
...Blair's favor, however, are his megawatt charm and drive. Who else would leap at the chance to do diplomacy's most thankless job? It also helps that, so far, he has the trust of Bush and the Israelis. "We have nothing but respect for him," said Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister...