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...Constitution has the aura of the sacred about it. It occupies a shrine up in the higher stretches of American reverence. A citizen imagines sun-shot clouds, the founders hovering in the air like saints in religious...
...University of Texas-educated lawyer is facing some of his greatest challenges since he became Treasury Secretary in 1985. Baker, 57, is seeing many of his initiatives -- on worldwide economic growth, Third World debt and the alignment of currencies -- stymied. As a result, his aura of achievement has lost some of its luster. Says Byron Wien, chief domestic- portfolio strategist at the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "The initial enthusiasm for Baker and his initiatives has dissipated. We all hope he'll get his second wind...
...1830s the Afrikaners decided to escape English rule by setting forth on their Great Trek, which over the years has acquired the epic aura of a Long March or a Valley Forge. Packing their women and children into ox-drawn wagons, some 6,000 Afrikaners departed from the British settlements on the coast and tramped hundreds of miles to the northeast, to the uninhabited wilderness along the Vaal River...
...wake. Before I had a chance to penetrate his baffling disguise (Shatner was out of regulation Starfleet uniform), the great one was gone, leaving only a trail of hair from his rapidly balding pate behind. No story this time, but it was well worth it to bask in the aura of greatness...
...this time was the teaming of the youngest member of the musical Jackson family with two hot Minneapolis producers. The pairing of Janet Jackson with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis developed a progressive new pop/soul sound, heavy on elements of beat and relying on the projection of an aura of female strength and toughness...