Word: endearing
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Diane Paulus, the ART's new artistic director, has decided to endear herself to undergraduates by sponsoring a trip to see a dress rehearsal of her critically lauded production of the musical Hair, due to open on Broadway in March...
...long-established connections to Israel. In Arab capitals, he was generally regarded as biased toward Israel throughout the Oslo peace process, and his central role in bodies such as the Jerusalem-based Jewish People Policy Planning Institute and the advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran will hardly endear him to the Iranians...
...Obama said nothing of the sort, but his promise to "take out" Pakistan's militants somehow got twisted, as often happens with messianic sects. But the point is, right now, an Obama victory was going to do nothing to endear the United States to at least this lady, and probably the Taliban...
...Whales are cute. They are intelligent, genius creatures that endear humans to want to interact with them," he says, "But we are a fishing people. Whale hunting is a part of our culture-not just our food culture." It's part of the culture that younger Japanese aren't all that familiar with, however. And it also happens to infuriate other nations...
...Despite that dramatic change of tone, Sarkozy still has a long way to go to endear himself to Algerians. He's angered many locals and their political leaders with his moves to cut back legal immigration and crack down hard on illegal immigrants. Critics, meanwhile, claim his creation of a Ministry of Immigration and National Identity stigmatizes foreigners as a threat to French identity...