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...students enrolled in “Loitering” are required to linger around a newsstand, and then purchase a magazine that they would not normally pick up. Students will then bring these intriguing publications to class where discussions and reactions will ensue. Prina plans to maintain the mysterious aura surrounding the class by not providing a syllabus so the students do not know what to expect as the semester progresses. Probably more loitering...
...slipping on their white lab coats. After eight years in the spotlight running a company that Wall Street values at more than $100 billion, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are still just in their early 30s and, with the stubbornness of youth, perhaps, and the aura of invincibility, keep doing things their way. So the white coats go on when it's time to approve new products. For a few hours, teams of engineers will come forward with their best ideas, hoping to dazzle the most powerful men in Silicon Valley. Google paid crazy money to attract...
...named U.S.A. captain Krissy Wendell, who won the 2005 Patty Kazmaier Award for top female player in college hockey. Canadians embrace the sport more fervently and play it more aggressively than any other nationality does. "They're gritty, feisty, cocky at times in a way where they carry an aura," says Granato, who will be part of NBC's Olympic and NHL broadcasting crew. "They get under your skin...
...landslide victory. But his administration has since been on the defensive. Ethnic violence in the country's south continues unabated, opposition rallies are getting bigger, and a corruption scandal involving Bangkok's new airport refuses to go away. The Shin controversy adds to the growing perception that Thaksin's aura of invincibility has dissipated...
...chorus of All You Need Is Love from the '60s British art show downstairs can shatter. Displayed along glass cabinets usually reserved for sacred scroll paintings are mere pots of wood-fired clay. But through the alchemy of her kiln, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott has lent these objects a heavenly aura. Before your eyes, her luminous glazes seem to fade to white; porcelain lips quiver. When two Buddhist monks enter the room, they are drawn to the pieces like moths to a flame, which is hardly surprising. If Tasmania's Les Blakebrough is the father of Australian pottery, then Ipswich, Queensland...