1.   But where and when the charismatic president spoke and what he actually said varied by account.

2.   Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, the charismatic president of Venezuela, are accustomed to the spotlight and gravitate toward it almost instinctively.

3.   Rather, the victory provided a chance for Iranians to celebrate a slow emergence from world isolation and to test freedoms cautiously advocated by a charismatic new president.

4.   Vice presidents seem as stick figures, hollow men, when measured against a charismatic incumbent president like Reagan or Clinton.

5.   Whether driving fast cars or pushing seemingly outlandish policies, the charismatic president has made his share of both friends and enemies, but he never fails to entertain.

6.   For five days the general strike that followed, led by the NLC, and its charismatic president Adams Oshiomhole, held solid and Obasanjo backed down.