Word: magnetized
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Crowe is a fascinating character. Not exactly a box-office magnet (Gladiator is his only hit), he has movie-star swagger to go with his outsize movie-actor talent. He burrows into roles as different as the paunchy tobacco scientist in The Insider and the hostage rescuer in Proof of Life. He gives intelligent, sexy performances. The question is whether his gifts can overcome his rep as a hard-case?a rude womanizer and, by all accounts, a balky guy on a movie...
...also helped attract hundreds of billions of overseas dollars into the country, noted Kenneth Courtis, a Tokyo-based vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia. And the spigot may still be turned on. "I don't think that all of a sudden the factors that made the U.S. a huge magnet for investment have disappeared," said Courtis, who argued the dollar could prove stronger against the competing euro than most analysts expect. But Hormats was less sanguine about overseas investment, pointing out that "if the foreign capital decides it's not so willing to come in, then we have a currency...
Fineberg took over the office as momentum for change gathered and he has been extraordinarily effective as provost. Consequently, he has become--for some--a magnet for resentment over these issues...
...guess I seem friendly or something," he said. "I think I am a definite weird magnet...
...architects of Cleveland's program counter that city parents are in no way encouraged to send their kids to religious schools. Parents can choose public magnet or charter schools, which are free and get far more funding per pupil than voucher schools. For this reason, says Clint Bolick, lead lawyer for a group of parents defending the program, "there's actually a disincentive to choose the voucher schools." Bolick argues that if you include magnet and charter schools in the equation, only 16.5% of parents who exercise educational choice send their kids to religious schools...