Word: glare
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Every year, the infamous St. Patrick’s Day parades in New York and South Boston, known for drawing conservative white males and excluding gays and lesbians, meet the glare of the national media spotlight. It’s no surprise that this annual focus on a narrow sample of Irish-Americans produces many misconceptions about a much-maligned people...
...public, Franks has been exactly what this war effort has required: Insistently realistic, never gloating, understated about victory and reassuringly honest about its inevitable costs. Throw in a touch of folksiness, some of the aw-shucks collar-tugging of an old artillery man blinking in the spotlight's white glare, and you have a fine war hero indeed. A real general, with real American soldiers on the ground under his command, - who realizes how fragile and precious a cargo that...
...those who could see past the glare of the host’s spotlight and did attend the nearly full first show, they got two shows for the price of one. S. Allen Counter, the director of the Foundation, had no idea what he was getting himself into when he called University President Lawrence H. Summers on stage. Standing next to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, Counter and Underwood, Summers would have looked out of place even if he were wearing a suit. Summers said a few words about the importance of diversity before...
...Interventionism, a collection of essays by Noam Chomsky, the renowned American linguistics professor and longtime thorn in the side of U.S. policymakers. Tas avoided conviction and a year in prison, observers agree, mainly because Chomsky had flown into Istanbul to stand by his side, prompting the prosecutor - in the glare of negative publicity - to throw in the towel...
Nobody ever said that protecting the public's health was an easy job--whether it's being done quietly and invisibly in peaceful times, or hurriedly and worriedly in the glare of media attention. But experts agree that the weaknesses exposed in the wake of the anthrax attacks must be fixed--and in such a way that a newly nimble system can handle both the sudden emergency and the everyday job of fostering national wellness. "For the last 20 years we've neglected public health," says Tennessee Senator Bill Frist, the Senate's only physician. The terrorist attacks have "shocked...