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...British Airways says its Concordes gave the company prestige, shuttling the swells on their surprisingly cramped, 1,336-mph passage at $10,000 a head. A trip aboard one must have been like joining an exclusive but rather cramped and uncomfortable club. But part of its charm - to the small number of people who flew it - was that it was superior to the other planes, safer. For the price of a ticket, you were buying a guarantee...
...about the frictionless ease of his personality. Longtime friend and campaign manager Don Evans remembers the grace with which Bush gave away a box of tools he was selling to a man who was eyeing them but clearly didn't have the dough. Texas Rangers fans recall the effortless charm of the team owner who sat in the regular seats, and even John McCain, Bush's nemesis in the primaries, marvels at the seductive charisma he encountered in their first postprimary meeting. Jim Ferguson, one of Bush's admen, is convinced: "If people get a glimpse of what they would...
...featuring Bush behind the wheel of a beat-up Ford Bronco on his dusty ranch outside Waco; or a candid moment at home when he and his wife Laura share a laugh at his expense, the point will be the same: that Bush, with his sunny optimism and persuasive charm, is the antidote to eight years of duplicity and partisan bickering in Washington...
...superstars' careers and publicity binges with surgical detail. On Ben Affleck: "[He] has had a Counting Crows kind of career--too much, too fast, too soon. This isn't his fault, but it is his problem." Each audit tots the star's assets and liabilities (Affleck's: "Easygoing, cocksure charm"/"Consistently refers to his acting as 'the work'") and judges the celeb's "actual" and "deserved" level of fame (for Affleck, respectively: "Johnny Depp" and "Omar Epps"). The site's "2 Stars, 1 Slot" compares eerily similar niche actors (Vicki Lewis vs. Kathy Griffin in "Battle of the Redheaded Flibbertigibbets...
...Tobacco. The same goes for their legal counsel. Friday, when a Florida jury returned their $145 billion verdict against the country's largest cigarette manufacturers, attorneys for Philip Morris (which was ordered to pay more than $70 billion of the punitive damages) met the news with the same charm one might expect from an ill-tempered boa constrictor. Several were actually frothing at the mouth...