Word: debonair
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...documentary, The Fog of War. Unfortunately, I arrived just a moment too late to get a seat in the auditorium; the most I could do was watch the video feed from the overflow room. This made the whole occasion seem even more surreal. Robert McNamara—debonair, genial and still very lucid at age 87—sat just a room away, before 700 members of the Harvard community, who, The Crimson reported, “received him with courteous applause...
...farewell Gucci collection, Tom Ford spiffed up the international playboy look with loafers, ascots and a new "twinset"--a V-neck sweater worn over a turtleneck. Valentino featured Argyle sweaters worn with debonair velvet trousers. Accessories for the after-5 gin-and-tonic set include pocket squares, cuff links and tie bars. And don't leave home without a classic blazer, acceptable dress code at any country club...
...much as it would be great to see droves of Harvard dating-novices finally working up the nerve to make a move, it seems unlikely that the idea of saving a few extra bucks will instantly turn a timid Joe Harvard into Mr. Debonair...
DIED. GIOVANNI AGNELLI, 81, debonair patriarch of Italian automaker Fiat; in Turin, Italy. Founded by his grandfather in 1899, Fiat was run by Agnelli as president for 30 years until 1996, and he retained control until he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year. Agnelli helped industrialize postwar Italy; under him, Fiat became the country's largest company. Its workers had a slogan: "Agnelli is Fiat, Fiat is Turin, and Turin is Italy." But competition from other European car makers saw Fiat's share of the Italian auto market drop from 60% to 39% in the late 1990s, and recently...
Coleen Rowley became enamored with the FBI's fictionalized ideal long before she heard of the real thing. Her favorite show was The Man from U.N.C.L.E., a spy spoof about two debonair agents who work to save the world from evil. In the fifth grade, Rowley wrote to the show's producers, asking to join the cadre of supersecret spies. She got a rejection letter. "They said it didn't exist," Rowley remembers. "But they told me that in the United States, we had something called the FBI. And they gave me the address." So Rowley wrote to the bureau...