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...Since their home station, WNEW-FM, spends little advertising the show, the jocks have built their audience by putting on road shows, inviting listeners to drinks at Hooters or handing out bumper stickers from a bus. As working-class guys from Long Island, O&A have a knack for making their often not so bright fans seem interesting--and integral. "Some guy shows up with a case of beer, and half an hour later he's on our show," says Opie...
...garish orange livery of Stelios Haji-Ioannou is spreading over Europe like a virus--and his competitors haven't found a cure. This natural-born salesman, a 34-year-old combination of the cerebral and the showman, of rich kid and hustler, has a knack for presenting the consumer with a cheap service that's free of the hassle and headache usually associated with discounts. He's applying the idea liberally across a growing number of businesses under the umbrella of easy--as in easyJet, easyRentacar and easyEverything...
...first glance, the story lines of Mafia hit men, power and treachery seem as if they will follow crime-tale formulas, but The Sopranos turns out to be as unpredictable as real life. Its popular and critical acclaim reflects Chase's ability to flesh out lifelike characters and his knack for assembling a cast with the energy to play them. He makes viewers identify with made men by making them human. You empathize with Tony Soprano whether he's whacking a guy in the afternoon or arguing with his abrasive Ivy League daughter at dinner, because Chase gets the details...
...with governments and other stakeholders in search of plausible solutions. A Ghanaian diplomat whose career has been spent mostly in the United Nations system, Annan has never wielded real power. And that may be his strength. His ability to effect outcomes derives entirely from his powers of persuasion, his knack for showing the partisans to any particular conflict that there is a high road, and that they're capable of walking it. It's plainly not all that easy to say no to a man so persuasively given to seeing the half-full cup illuminated by the silver lining...
...Jassie, another trendsetting label. Almost in unison, every label that wanted to stay afloat asked their karisuma tenin to please, please design their clothes too. Even though most of them can't sew or draw and never went to design school, the labels recognize these women have a knack for channeling what is kawaii and what isn't?and that is all the companies want. That, and the yen: Jassie's sales, for instance, have increased 180% since Takai took over as designer two years...