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...this conflict among our national leaders and levels of government, as The Crimson reported on its front page yesterday, has potentially jeopardized our aura of stability, at least temporarily, in the eyes of the international community...
Between the hectoring voice of James Baker and the monotone of Warren Christopher, David Boies cheerfully made the Democratic case to the TV crews. In a crisis atmosphere, he gave off an aura of confidence that somehow the system would work--not in weeks but in days. As he earnestly told a Russian TV reporter one night, "This doesn't happen very often here in this country. It's not a question of legal maneuvering. And it ought not to be a question of politics. It's a question of whom did the voters want." The Russian walked off, nodding...
...Kennedy in 1960 by a few hallucinated votes in Cook County, worked for eight years in the Republican wilderness, speaking to every Rotary and Kiwanis that would have him. But Nixon had more ground to make up. He was defeated in the California race for governor in 1962; an aura of redoubled loser clung to him like five o'clock shadow. It was early 1968 before he looked like a winner again...
...lead holds up in Florida, George W. Bush will have such a thin majority in the Electoral College that Gore's nationwide popular-vote lead of more than 200,000 will seem the more decisive verdict. The dubious integrity of Florida's ballot tabulations will only add to the aura of illegitimacy...
...Portishead's Beth Gibbons, over relaxed jazz grooves that fuse high-pitched rhythms with smooth bass. But as Submarine dives deeper into the skin it somehow finds its innocence in the lighter, airier texture of songs like "Out to Lunch" that replace much of the bass with the softer aura of strings...