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Colin Powell is not the first Secretary of State to come into the job with high expectations. HENRY KISSINGER, named Richard Nixon's man at State in 1973, had a portfolio of diplomatic successes and "the unmistakable aura of a true celebrity...
...dominant Williams. So what is Schumacher's secret, if it's not always having the best car? "I'm probably not a bad racing driver," he said with considerable understatement after the Hungarian race. He goes into every race and qualifying session expecting to win, and he has an aura of super-confidence that gives him an edge in the psychological battle over rivals. In a sport filled with monstrous egos, there are few that can match Schumacher's. One driver who should know how to handle him is his younger brother Ralf, who drives for Williams. The Williams...
...ignominious defeat. And for that same reason, over in the West Bank and Gaza, Lebanon carries considerable mythic significance, too. Only there, it's not op-ed columnists but young men with guns and bombs who draw the link with Hezbollah's two-decade guerrilla campaign that shattered the aura of invincibility of the Middle East's strongest, best-equipped and most technologically superior army...
Running was too big a risk--for Smith and for the family's aura of invincibility. (Only one family member, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, has ever lost a general election.) Smith is the fifth member of the clan this year to float a trial balloon, then pop it. Almost as many have entered races to stay. Four Kennedys by birth or marriage are running--two for Governor, two for Congress. Should they all prevail, there will be five family members in federal or statewide office--the most ever--including patriarch Ted Kennedy, who won an easy re-election last year...
...work space is clear, save for a Phillips computer and laser printer. The effect of sitting in this room, with its plush oriental carpets and quiet rush of air-conditioning, is a little like being submerged. Voices are muted. Movements seem unnaturally slow. It is as if Thaksin's aura of measured patience radiates outward, catching even his aides, who usually scurry about delivering sheaves of paper and answering mobile phones, in a tranquilizing bubble...