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MICHAEL CLAYTON George Clooney lends his old-time movie-star aura to the role of a "fixer" getting clients out of trouble in a large law firm. Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton co-star in this exposé of corporate chicanery...
...their business during "haunted happenings season." They asked it to shut down unlicensed psychics and draw up guidelines of psychic ethics and quality. ("What are the criteria?" the Salem News reported a baffled councilwoman as asking.) One Salem police officer testified about a scam whereby adepts detected a "dark aura" around a tourist and then charged as much as $5,000 to remove...
...responsibility and compensating the victims' families, a settlement hammered out in 2002 and 2003. Libya agreed to pay out $2.7 billion for the bombing. But only one of the Libyans, Megrahi, was convicted - a verdict several parties have disputed, including a U.N.-appointed observer who complained of a "political aura" at the initial trial...
...fierce Rajput occupants donned saffron robes and rode out from its iron-spiked gates to their deaths. Not to be outdone by the sacrificial heroics of their menfolk, the women chose jauhar, or self-immolation in a fiery pit, over captivity. Such tales have cloaked Chittorgarh in an aura that it retains to this day. My guide waxes romantic over the spot where the beautiful Queen Padmini committed herself to the flames to escape the Sultan of Delhi's clutches in 1303. "She is still beloved by the people," he declares. "She is Rajasthan...
...time when movie stars flocked to photographers for an even more glamorous image, Wallace Seawell was a king. Putting subjects at ease with his gushing enthusiasm ("The aura of the person excites you," he once said), Seawell, below, created shiny, highly stylized portraits, often for celebrity magazines, of Hollywood royalty like Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor...