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...obsessive control of information? Mystery, for the Chinese Communist Party, is a tool of power. The ability to spring a surprise on the world cultivates an aura of command?over the people, the media, and, as the Party pretends to believe, over the very course of history. Keeping internal processes secret also prevents lower-ranking Party members and the public mobilizing to alter the course of events...
...original fervor for his maps and battle reports waste away with his health. Elsey saved a couple of papers with the President's signature; firm, strong in 1942, quaky and feeble by 1945. "When Churchill entered the room, he seemed to fill it," says Elsey. "His reputation, the aura that preceded him, was so great. We were in awe." Captain Ogden Kniffin, Elsey's Army counterpart, made it a practice on night duty to remove and hang up his uniform to keep it unwrinkled for morning show. Once, about 4:30 a.m., the door flew open and Churchill entered...
...attracted off-stage trouble?charges of wrecking cars and assaulting photographers?with the same magnetism that sets his fans screaming their lust at him. The aura of Celebrity Bad Boy has hung on the kid like the "Kick Me" sign on the back of a high-school loser...
...been based on that ingratiating sincerity. Musharraf's speeches on television--the most memorable came last January, when he explained why he had to crack down on Islamic fundamentalism--tend to be emotional appeals to the people. A good percentage of the populace has responded to the aura of a military man who seems neither haughty nor overly intellectual...
...head up and down, looking tired and confused. His hair, once wild and frizzy, is now cut short, his Rasputin-like beard trimmed respectably. Every move he makes is closely watched by his remaining disciples?wide-eyed men and women who flock to the courtroom to bask in the aura of the man they still consider their spiritual father. "He never did what you expected him to," says one of them, Hiroki Araki. "But we are grateful for what he has given...