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Such lines don't always work. Peters pours the charm on Dongxia, but she already has a better offer: running her own lab for a research company that would start her at $80,000 a year. Still, all is not lost for the agency. Alan, the biomedicine student, is hot to trot, and there are more where he came from...
...equation. Hockey, at least, merits a brief mention: "I'm so glad that so many of these Canadian semi-pro hockey players can all score the median 1480 SAT to get into Harvard," Wolfe chided a Kennedy School gathering). More specifically Harvard was not groomed with the state school charm where Division I basketball players and footballers strut like kings, secure in the knowledge that the university holds them in even higher esteem than its president...
...back to the Yard, I realized what many before me have, and what many to follow certainly will: that the Quad has a definite personality all its own, replete with the charm of the rest of the University, but lacking the pretensions of that which is characteristically Harvard. I will be proud to call it home...
Putin does not promise to be an easy proposition for the West. He noted President Clinton's "charm" to an aide and regretted he did not possess any. But, he added, foreign relations must be state to state, not personal. He will pursue a hard-nosed Russia-first foreign policy, though he operates from a position of weakness. Russians advise the West to wait and see what he does before putting too much credence in his words. Western leaders have apparently decided, though, to take Putin at face value--his best face. Albright called him "a leading reformer" even before...
...Charade; nothing of the work for UNICEF. Still, what's onscreen fascinates because of the life itself and, at bottom, because of the dead-on impersonation by Jennifer Love Hewitt. Hepburn's accent; her posture; her chin-down, eyebrows-up way with a line--Hewitt has it all, and charm to boot. Delicious...