He attracted notice at Leicester against Worcester at the start of the month when he came off the bench and helped get the Tigers' scrum out of reverse gear.
Obama's campaign had received support from Hollywood and Wall Street, and he attracted allies at large technology companies such as Google, but he did not have broad connections to the largest industrial corporations.
At 17 he attracted attention while playing at the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans, and deputised for Huey "Piano" Smith, a local hero, with the band of the guitarist Earl King.
When the president of Sierra Leone asked Genevieve Nnaji, a Lagosian screen goddess, to join him on the campaign trail he attracted record crowds at rallies.
Last week, Sanders made headlines when he attracted 27,500 supporters at a rally in Los Angeles, showing he has more grassroots support than President Obama had at this point in his campaign.
At 24, he attracted attention as the chef at Mary Elaine's in the Phoenician in Scottsdale, Ariz., and then opened Renoir in the Mirage in Las Vegas, a showcase for his French training.
When Mr Hakim entered Najaf, the Vatican City of Shia Islam, he attracted only 15,000.The seminary at Najaf, which lost thousands of students and teachers to Saddam's executioners and prisons, views Mr Hakim with scepticism.
At Baruch, he attracted three gifts of $10 million or more, as well as numerous gifts of at least $1 million.
He lived a dual life, attracted at times to women, and he believed that by admitting he also liked men he would be rejected by his family, teammates and coaches.
