Word: smarts
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...left his home number. In the summer, at his six-house compound in Lake Como, Italy, he throws nightly Algonquin-style dinners featuring such guests as Al Gore, Walter Cronkite and Quincy Jones. "He's an excellent host," says Tony Gilroy, director of Michael Clayton. "He's really smart about figuring out what people need and want. Are they hot? Happy? Cold? Thirsty? He has that ability to bend himself to the space he's in and instantly adjust to the group he's with." So I wondered, Can George Clooney possibly be a guest? Or is that just against...
...Clooney also preempts situations that might earn him ridicule later. So he has either turned down every gift bag he's been offered or has put them up on eBay for charity. "I've been smart about that. Rich famous people getting free s___ looks bad. You look greedy. And I don't need a cell phone with sparkles on it," he says. He sends handwritten apology letters to the directors whose scenes he ripped off in the movies he directed-Mike Nichols, Sidney Lumet, Sydney Pollack. He drives an electric car and a Lexus hybrid...
...America seeking to present a non-aggressive face to the world, the “Department of War” became the “Department of Defense.” In response to numerous surveys confirming falling opinions of the United States around the world, the Commission on Smart Power—a bipartisan project chaired by Kennedy School of Government professor Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage—has suggested that the emphasis on a narrow “War on Terror” driven by self-interest should...
Relations with the U.S. already are excellent, largely because she and President Reagan are cut from the same ideo logical cloth. "She's tough and smart" marvels Secretary of State George Shultz. "She's a great and determined lady who's shown us what leadership is all about " Shultz could not resist adding: "If I were married to her, I'd be sure to have dinner ready when she got home...
...name, Fred's charm, Mitt's money. McCain was out of cash and out of friends and is flat out despised by the hard right. By what remarkable means, then, has he arrived at the brink of his party's nomination? Well, people kind of like him. He's smart, usually reasonable, often funny, sometimes goofy. So voters, you know, vote for him. For this you need Tim Russert...