Word: personae
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Though he's an expert horseman, the Harvard-educated Uribe, 49, looks less like the Clint Eastwood persona he cultivates and more like one of the legions of owlish technocrats who took over Latin America in the 1990s. He was hardened as mayor of Medellin, the continent's most violent city. Though his father, a rancher, was a friend of Fabio Ochoa, the late patriarch of the city's notorious drug cartel (the two shared a love of horses), Mayor Uribe was a noted crime buster there. As governor of northern Antioquia and as a Senator, he built a reputation...
Apart from her willingness to tackle what she calls “the most pressing, most controversial issues facing students,” Lee presented a very different persona from Gusmorino, with her hands-off leadership and a hip style...
...means a one-sided tale. We, the athletes, are equally to blame for the “dumb jock” phenomenon. I have witnessed more than a handful of athletes all too ready to adopt the persona. Sadly, we are an introverted community and do not commit ourselves completely to dispelling the stereotype. The “dumb jock” persona is easy to adopt—it gives the illusion of identity and those outside the athletic community will grant it to you willingly. But in the end the “dumb jock” graduates...
...many ways, I have spent too much time running away from the “dumb jock” label. At the very least, I gravitated to activities that seemed to build my persona outside the stereotype. In this way, I spent nearly four years paralyzed by the stereotype. Partially out of fears of falling into the athlete trap, I signed on to a concentration that, due to the rigor of its tutorial program, was almost devoid of athletes. Even writing for The Crimson seemed the “unathletic” thing...
While the accident created the appearance that became part of his comedic persona, his success in comedy was no accident...