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...entire life, Haggerty has been around schools—as a student, a coach, a teacher, or some combination of the three. It will be that atmosphere, that aura of learning and teaching that will be most difficult for him to leave behind...
...Sharon. But analysts warned that there was a huge sympathy factor at play and that once emotions abated, Kadima could start to slide. The party is so new it doesn't even have procedures to select its candidates. Without Sharon, the disparate egos brought together largely by his winning aura could clash. The trick will be to prove in short order that Kadima is more than a one-man show...
...defeat hit Bush so hard that friends say he needed half a decade to get over it, and an aide recalls that some of Clinton's angriest private moments during his impeachment were rants directed not at independent counsel Ken Starr but at the Bush family's aura of privilege at a time when Clinton felt persecuted. Besides, whatever their history, the dynastic calculations were dizzying: one man's son is President, and the other's wife is believed by many to be a contender for next in line--a pair of legatees who, just to complicate things further, also...
...inspiration for “Untangling the Ivy League 2006” came after Zawel found that only four out of 100 people surveyed could actually name every college in the Ivy League. He believes that an aura of mystery surrounds Harvard, Yale, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, and Columbia. He hopes his guide will help prospective students take an inside look at the Ivy League so that they might be able to dispel, or in some cases confirm, rumors that are constantly circulating about the eight colleges...
...salvage what had been a promising postvictory year. Instead, Social Security reform died; the U.S. death toll in Iraq passed 2,000; Katrina exposed the weakness of the Administration's bench players; a Supreme Court nominee fell; a White House aide resigned under indictment. Even Karl Rove's aura of imperturbability began to melt, not only because he is under investigation in the CIA-leak case but also--and more gravely for the G.O.P.--because for once he seemed unable to find a winning issue for his boss. If 2006 looks anything like 2005, George W. Bush will not only...