S.: Most, it seems, have a flair for the dramatic.

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Mr Kenyatta may not have a natural flair for public speaking but he has a powerful voice and can be persuasive when fighting his corner.

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That should have stimulated profit-seeking behavior by the universities, but few, aside from MIT, Stanford and the University of Wisconsin, have displayed a flair for it.

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Thus Kinnucan, the Oregon analyst, may have shown a flair for criminal defense work by blasting an e-mail to his clients describing how FBI agents tried to bully him into wearing a wire.

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