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...Their Own.” In the article, a feisty ex-pitcher recalled her career as a pitcher for the Rockford Peaches. She said, without any real rancor, that her skirted uniform stopped four inches above her knee, and that the league, early in its history, ran a charm school for its players. Suddenly, the league’s title grated. “Girls” seemed as antique and demeaning as the skirts or the charm school. Wasn’t our use of “girls” equally suspect...
...season’s Harvard team was fun to watch, not only because they won so often, or because of the blue-collar work ethic the team proudly displayed on the ice. The individual characters on the team gave this year’s Crimson a certain personality, a charm, if you will, that was built around getting along. It was the perfect formula for success. It carried Harvard to the finals. And it can be credited in large part to McAuliffe and Ruggiero...
...ambition. It's just a bunch of ragged blues covers (and one bluesy original) seemingly selected with the aid of a dart board (Aretha Franklin? Fleetwood Mac?), but other than a disastrously sincere take on Jesus Is on the Main Line, Honkin' on Bobo is full of clamorous charm...
...connect the 16th century European habit of dog turd-throwing, Dutch painting's depiction of the chicken groper, and a potted history of the sheela-na-gig (the wanton witch engraved in medieval churches across England, Ireland and Wales) is part of the book's but-I-digress charm...
Kelley, 43, who denies wrongdoing, had tried to work his charm on the investigators. "He's so believable and seemingly so open," Seigenthaler told TIME. USA Today staff members say the paper's managers, insecure after years of having their publication ridiculed by some as McPaper, dismissed rumblings about a star who enhanced their publication's prestige. Kelley had been up for a Pulitzer Prize--the second of only two nominations his paper has received in its 22-year history. (The Wall Street Journal has won 19 in the same period.) "They thought he was just the kind of thing...