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...that Hillary Clinton is keeping Gore from running. It's true that Gore's late-entry presidential calculus always required Hillary to stumble, and it's true she has not done so - to the contrary, she has extended her lead nationally, edged ahead in Iowa, and taken on an aura of invincibility that has brought the Democratic power structure into line behind her. One hundred and thirty-six thousand people may have signed Draft Gore petitions, but most Dems seem pleased with their current candidates - and especially with the front-runner. To borrow a phrase from Barack Obama, the Clinton...
...keeping with the legacy of Indian independence, the aura of nationalism that surrounded Mohun Bagan soon faded with the conflicts of partition. The well-heeled Calcuttans who ran Mohun Bagan often discriminated against athletes from the eastern parts of Bengal, whose accents, culinary tastes and even modes of dress differed. A contingent of eastern officials and players broke away from Mohun Bagan and set up the East Bengal club in 1920. The rivalry was ramped up after 1947, when the departing British divided Bengal along religious lines, its east becoming East Pakistan. Millions of Hindu refugees fled west to Kolkata...
...calling out to the characters. The temporal structure of the film adds to the narrative of the story, unveiling key details when they’re needed. Flashbacks, combined with the occasional voice-over by Jena Malone, who plays McCandless’ younger sister, give the film a eulogistic aura. When you leave your seat, you might be a little more skeptical about the life you live. You might even take someone up on an adventure. If nothing else, when the Boston winter arrives, you finally might see ice and snow as an avenue for ruddy character building, rather than...
...Sports Core. It’s time to toughen up and shake off the hangover from the Cornell hockey game and get on a bus to New Haven. The state of Harvard football has declined since the Crimson won its only Rose Bowl in 1920, but the aura surrounding The Game has not. It’s the longest-running rivalry in American sports, a rare opportunity to see Harvard mentioned on ESPN, and one of the few times everyone at this school agrees on something—Yale sucks.WOMEN’S HOCKEY vs. ST. LAWRENCE (Sat. 11/24...
...photographed looking great while pretending to be other people - but it's not exactly coal-mining in West Virginia. So some of them give back to the world that gave them so much; Clooney, whom I'd call the exemplary Hollywood star, has been especially generous in lending his aura to well-chosen issues and charities. The top actors also appear in films that are, in their subject matter and their underdog status in the commercial movie universe, their own worthy causes. That's what brought Reese and Jake and George up to Toronto: to raise awareness of thorny issues...