Word: magnetism
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...year's TIFF was not so festive. The terrorists of Sept. 11 severed the 10-day convention in half: five days of illuminating fun, five days of mourning from which the movies provided only fitful distraction. This year Toronto returned to its root functions as film showplace and star magnet (there's Dustin! there's Denzel!). But on Sept. 11, 2002, the programmers presented two films that explicitly confronted the attacks and their aftermath: Jim Simpson's The Guys, a conventionally heart-rending meeting of a journalist and a New York City fire captain, and the much more ambitious...
...experts While its snazzy look was an initial magnet, younger kids found it heavy and difficult to maneuver...
...public cares little about his sport, he's undeniably famous, though if the U.S. Postal Service's huge, climate-controlled team bus rolled down the street in Seattle or New Orleans, most citizens would assume it was carrying mail. In France, however, the bus is a gray-and-blue magnet to autograph seekers and media hordes from around the world. Other teams have similar buses, but no other team has bouncers...
...party and making wealthy friends from coast to coast. (Senate majority leader Tom Daschle is keeping up a similar pace.) Last December, Gephardt left Washington during a busy congressional session to fly to Los Angeles and present the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's Liberty and Justice Award to money magnet Barbra Streisand and then hopped a red-eye back to breakfast with President Bush...
...Palm-lined Manting Lu Road, near the Mekong in the heart of Jinghong, is a magnet for the hungry. Other standouts among its dozens of eateries are the Mei Mei and Forest cafes, backpackers' havens both. But for authentic eats, head for Chai's place. He gets all the superlatives...