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...looks of a matinee idol and the brains of a subversive mogul. Like his Sundance Film Festival--where each January in Park City, Utah, makers of low-budget films mix with cell phone-addicted agents and studio executives--Redford is a fiercely independent entity with an inescapable aura of Hollywood glamour...
...students, usually hosts between 10 and 13 people on any given week. Classics concentrators are not the only ones waxing philosophical in the language of the philosophers. The table is open to all Latin-loving souls, whether they come to speak or just to soak up the hyper-intellectual aura. Adam S. Levine 05, a potential math concentrator and new table member, was surprised at the proficiency of the speakers. My first reaction was complete amazement at how well some of the people speak a language that has been dead for many centuries, he says. Sometimes the students accidentally place...
...modern America, the blue-blooded elite has lost its relevance. The last half of the twentieth century was predominantly a meritocracy, not an aristocracy. As the influence of old money diminished, the aura around the old, revered families dissipated. Now, unless you’re a Kennedy, nobody cares. Just look at Harvard’s student body. Although we still have students from pedigreed families, most students cannot trace their lineage back to Rockefeller or DuPont. Instead, students are much more racially, geographically and economically diverse...
...funny thing happened during Games 3, 4 and 5 at Yankee Stadium—Mystique and Aura managed to find their way back inside the New York clubhouse...
Apparently, though, this didn’t phase the D-Backs entering the series. As Arizona pitcher Curt Schilling said of the Yankees’ mystique and aura, “those are the names of dancers at a night club, [not something we should be concerned about].” The D-Backs went on to decisively win the first two games of the series behind the arms of Schilling and Randy Johnson...