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...space station lurches on, like a fighter out on his feet but held up because he is entangled in the ropes -- that is to say, politics. On the home front, the station has on its side 75,000 jobs and the aura of U.S. technological superiority. Overseas there are commitments to our erstwhile partners...
...like it or not, this place makes you a part of it whether you want it to or not. Maybe it's the Harvard aura. Or maybe it's the Herrell's ice cream...
Still, is courage a virtue, or is it simply testosterone poisoning? Is remorse, which the narrator now feels, merely the result of bad health? Is God just a neurochemical event, part of the tantalizing aura that precedes an epileptic attack? A shrug is implied here. The narrator faces a chancy brain operation. "I hope I get to keep my dogs somehow," he frets. "Maybe stay at my sister's place. If they send me to the nuthouse I lose the dogs for sure...
...over ordering the raids. Washington had been annoyed at Aidid's resurgence for some time. Less than 24 hours after the U.N. peacekeepers were slain, Clinton gave the Pentagon his go-ahead. The White House took its first military action in stride, as if to create an aura of quiet competence around the President. Clinton did not personally address the issue until his Saturday radio talk, when he declared that U.S. and coalition troops had "successfully attacked" Aidid's positions and struck "a blow against lawlessness and killing...
...prize winner Reid, who receives the only Latin diploma still awarded at the College, has displayed a "palpable aura of self-possession and personal power wherever she goes," according to Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson...