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...highlight of the contest came with only two minutes left--senior forward Richard Wilmot scored the winning goal off another timely assist from McLaughlin, bringing the emotional crowd to its feet...
Golia said another of the plaque's functions is to highlight that these first Native Americans were also outstanding students in their own right...
...protection against a Clinton landslide, the most endangered G.O.P. candidates find themselves more eager to highlight their differences with Speaker Gingrich than with Clinton. With the President in his centrist incarnation, Cremeans' adviser, Barry Bennett, is not the only Republican boasting, "You can pick 10 big issues, and we're a lot closer to Clinton than our opponent is." Behind this explicit message is an implicit one: the virtue of divided government, if only as a check on the President's liberal instincts...
...many years after beach volleyball was beginning, some friends and I used to play basketball on Sunday mornings in a Greenwich Village playground. The highlight of the year was not some spectacular hook shot--there weren't any spectacular hook shots--but the awards banquet at which we'd hand out honors like "The John Foster Dulles Award for the Most Specious Out-of-Bounds Argument" and a special trophy for "Most Improved Jewish Player...
...only once: when he resigned from the Senate. It was a moment when he could have tacked many ways. He was fond of saying that "in a record of more than 12,000 votes, you can make a case for just about anything." So the accomplishments he chose to highlight in that tearful moment were instructive. Dole spoke movingly of his role in creating and expanding the food-stamp and school-lunch programs. He recalled sponsoring both the Women, Infants and Children Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Those achievements, he said without saying so explicitly, were his legacy...