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...whatever RADWAC's motivations, its efforts to raise awareness about the clubs ought to be commended. Indeed, despite their discriminatory ethos, final clubs continue to enjoy a certain aura of prestige and power on campus. Efforts to expose their "patriarchal elitism" can only be encouraged...
...mouth suggests the young Katharine Hepburn; its I-know-I've-got-it look can be read as poise or derision. Waif-thin, Posey must have a Slinky for a spine; her walk is a loosey-goosey dance, as if house music were playing nonstop in her head. The aura is of a Park Avenue deb who gets her kicks downtown...
...laid out $10 million of his country's puny resources to play host to the fight and a festival of African and Afro-American music. "We left Africa in shackles and fetters and chains," said promoter Don King in a spume of eloquence. "We are coming back in an aura of splendor and scintillating glory. The champions are here...
...when people admire you because you're gay than when people hate you for it. But I am appalled by attitudes toward gay people which on some level assume that people of the same sexual orientation inevitably have a common outlook, common political viewpoints, a shared fashion sense, an aura of "coolness...
...surprising to find out that beneath that Stephen Hawking-Albert Einstein aura is an ordinary person who is like the rest of us. Gates was a geek in high school who had problems with a parent growing up. He values his close friendships, loves his wife and daughter and protects his privacy. He has amassed a personal fortune and attained the American Dream through his brilliance and hard work. What's wrong with that? All the more power to Gates and Microsoft. I look forward to the cornucopia of new software and gadgets that they will come up with...