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...losers in these elections," she told Ortega when the two met at her home the evening after the vote. Chamorro pressed a similar message in her victory speech. "This is an election that will never have exiles or political prisoners or confiscations," she said. Initially Ortega added to the aura of reconciliation with a graciousness that impressed even his harshest critics. In his concession statement, he hailed the "clean and pure electoral process" and pledged to "respect and obey the popular mandate...
...felt that part of our job was just to inform students, because there is this aura of mystery around the board," Shaffner explains...
...oldest brother does not feel anything but happiness for his little bro. And perhaps hanging around Sports Illustrated's Sportskid of the Year has worn off on him. Best friend Matt Mallgrave claims that in many ways, Drury still retains his youthful aura...
...breakdown began, too late to do East Coast businesses any good. To help make amends, AT&T announced late last week that it had asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to offer long-distance discounts to all callers on Valentine's Day. But the phone company's aura of infallibility will not be so easily repaired...
...less attractive aspect of the President's new decisiveness is his obsession with secrecy. There is an aura of scary smugness about Bush these days, a schoolboyish delight in saying, as he did to reporters about the Malta summit, "I knew something you didn't." Secrecy obviously is necessary in planning something like a Panama invasion. But Bush and his confidants have on occasion carried it to the point of deliberately misleading Congress and the public -- not to mention ranking members of their own Administration -- as with the supposed ban on high-level political talks with the Chinese...