But not least among his more amazing powers has been a superhuman charisma and ever-enduring appeal.

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Desperate to make up for the disappointments of France 98, he has made a superhuman effort to get himself fit.

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To be sure, she has more than a touch of what Slaughter calls the superhuman.

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That superhuman status set Armstrong up for the hardest kind of fall, and he has plummeted back to earth.

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Yet he has parlayed the art of being inoffensive--as well as considerable business smarts and superhuman drive--into 35 hours of weekly airtime and a Rolodex the envy of TMZ.

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