Word: aura
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When you received your crimson-inked acceptance letter and checked yes on the prepaid postcard, you relinquished your right to be modest about your college, at least to people who would kill to trade lives with you. The aura surrounding Harvard students throughout the world is yours to wield as you please. This aura will grant you instant respect from Aachen to Zanzibar. Wield it wisely, and don’t ruin it for others. Downplaying your Harvard credentials anywhere in the world will only reduce Harvard’s prestige and ruin any respect you’ve built...
...Pakistani sources' information, that suspected alQaeda leader Abu Eisa alHindi had been arrested in Britain. "That's the British style," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland. "Don't talk about it, get on with the job quietly, and leave an aura of mystery." But that style drew criticism from Conservative Party leaders amid media reports that alHindi had been in the final stages of planning an attack on Heathrow Airport. "The British public appears to be always the last to know," complained David Davis, a Tory leader in Parliament. --By Jeffrey Kluger. Reported...
...country in shifting combinations of twos and threes, the daughters of John Kerry and sons of Teresa Heinz seem to enjoy an effortless camaraderie. One person's arm inevitably drapes over another's shoulder, and they appear to amuse one another endlessly with whispered asides. But because creating an aura of warmth is one of the reasons a candidate's family goes on the stump, many have wondered whether this group has really formed the perfect blended family it advertises itself...
Since the release of their previous album, Hello, Nasty, in 1998, the Beastie Boys have accumulated an aura of seriousness that is almost wholly undeserved. It's true that they issued a long-overdue apology for the homophobia of their historically dumb first record, 1986's Licensed to Ill, and continued to champion the cause of Tibetan freedom. But in much the same way that Condoleezza Rice's oft repeated desire to be commissioner of the NFL hardly makes her a jock, the Beasties' hopes for a free Tibet don't make them statesmen. The Tibet thing was just...
...independent is like "climbing a cliff with a slippery rope." But he could be getting a leg up from various third parties. The idea is to have it both ways: collect their endorsements--and their access to a line on various state ballots--but maintain his "independent" aura. Two weeks ago, he won the nod of the Reform Party, Perot's old outfit, which would automatically put him on the ballot in seven states, including battlegrounds Florida and Michigan, if he chooses. And although Nader says he doesn't want the Green Party's formal nomination again, he could...