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...World Series. I know they're awfully good, but it's not very exciting for the rest of us when one team keeps hogging the spotlight. The Yankees have too much money - not that the Mets are exactly scraping the bottom of the barrel, but the Yanks have this aura of wealth that I find unispiring. If I had my way, there'd be a moratorium on World Series until the year when two economically struggling teams clawed their way up to the championship. The Pirates, for example, and maybe the Minnesota Twins...
...fact, it the show's optimistic bent that almost killed it in pre-production. Given the aura of scandal that clung to the White House in the wake of the Lewinsky debacle, producers at NBC were uncertain that the nation would swallow Martin Sheen's squeaky-clean President Barlet. All sorts of polls have shown that the average American's faith in government has slid steadily downward since Watergate. Was it possible that a public so disillusioned with its leaders could accept the portrait of a politician with a magnetic personality, a benevolent heart, and a philosophy of being...
...opposition gambled too. The cautious Kostunica thought Milosevic's lust to retain his aura of legitimacy might force the President to give up if the legal bodies ruled the "official" vote count a fraud. So he refused to participate in the Milosevic-ordained runoff. Kostunica resolutely insisted he was already President-elect, and he was backed up by an international chorus of support, save only from Moscow. He risked losing again if the runoff took place without him on Oct. 8, leaving Milosevic to claim a technical victory. But Kostunica grew visibly in stature as he stuck to his sense...
...kind to Green Day. Even as its members creep toward the wizened age of 30, the band still manages to be plenty spirited, not to mention more musically adept than ever before. Friday they even seemed like genuinely nice guys, to boot - projecting, if you will, an almost fatherly aura over the crowd...
...save the king and England itself from this madness? Enter Dr. Willis, a physician with modern notions of psychology, who manages to restore George's reason by forcing him to behave like an ordinary man. Willis shocks the king back to sanity; he reduces the king's aura until what is left is but a lonely and slightly cynical old man. In the end, the clouds dissipate as George again takes the reins of power and administers a hilarious lesson to Cabinet and Parliament...