Word: wit
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...with a pair of gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, she has wowed sports fans with graceful and tenacious swordswomanship, adding three world championship titles to a list of international laurels. Away from her foils, the stunning 28-year-old has enhanced her celebrity status with flourishes of wit and charm that have made her a star with a larger French public that doesn't know an epee from its elbow...
...party tonight for Terry McAuliffe, chief pimp of the Democratic Party fund-raising machine," says Mark, half threadbare chic and half Rat Pack cool. "It's hosted by Patton Boggs, this big law firm, so these are Public Enemies No. 1 and 2. Check out their website." (To wit: "Patton Boggs was among the first national law firms to recognize that all three branches of government could serve as forums in which to achieve client goals...
...long suspension. I tried to guess where they would come up again. I waited. I guessed wrong, as I always do. After a moment or two, they popped up in an opposite, unexpected quarter. The loon is a deadpan wit. We repeated the game three times. At last, they tired of me, and vanished. As I paddled across flat water to the dock, I heard a single loon call in the swampish bay beyond the lodge - the loneliest sound on earth, a premonition of winter, of what's to come...
...Passage to India). His transparency made it easy for him to incarnate specters; he was Marley's Ghost in Scrooge and Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars--the role that heaped on him the annoyance of multigenerational fame. But "the force" was not with Guinness; delicacy and subversive wit were...
Eighth grade was the worst year of my life," says Ashley Power, 15, whose quick wit and flawless looks make it tough to imagine her as anything less than the most popular girl in school. But when she switched to a new junior high in Burbank, Calif., two years ago, the class cliques promptly brushed her off, forcing her to turn to the Web to make friends. The result: goosehead.com a site she created that is chock full of games, music downloads and original comedy in streaming video. "I want to make Goosehead a teen-entertainment network," says Power, whose...