Word: limelight
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Meredith Rainey '90 may be out of Harvard, but she certainly isn't out of the limelight, out of shape or out of the running. Far from it. The NCAA 800-meter champion qualified for the Goodwill Games this summer. She finished seventh in Seattle, but is considered a strong contender for the 1992 Olympic gold...
Gaviria, 43, owes his victory in part to his willingness to pick up the mantle of antidrug crusaders after his party's leading candidate, Luis Carlos Galan, was gunned down last August by drug-cartel assassins. Thrust unexpectedly into the limelight at the urging of Galan's family, Gaviria emerged as the most vocal of the candidates against the narcotraficantes. "I am a supporter of extradition," says Gaviria, but he wants to use it only as a "last resort...
...exact opposite of incumbent Alan Garcia Perez, a fiery speaker whose high- profile antics wore thin as he ran the Peruvian economy into the ground. When Garcia tried in 1987 to nationalize the banks, Vargas Llosa successfully rallied against the move. He has been in the limelight ever since. In fact, the handsome 54-year-old novelist is openly disdainful of the occupation that engages him. "Politics is intimately related to human mediocrity," Vargas Llosa observes wryly. So far, this attitude has been to his advantage in Peru, where voters seem as cynical about those who govern them...
Stephens would be a brief story line on L.A. Law compared with the season of material provided by Dexter Lehtinen, acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Lehtinen had scarcely moved into the limelight as the prosecutor of deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega before he was burned by it. Some lawyers questioned whether his lack of trial experience would hamper his conduct of the case. Finally Lehtinen announced that he would turn it over to two experienced prosecutors, Michael P. (Pat) Sullivan and Myles Malman. They come to the case late, but it will probably be at least...
Democratic beacons assume that the troubles in Washington are so out of hand that any Washington mayor will come out looking like a failure. As D.C. mayor, Jackson would be shunted out of the national limelight and out of contention for the Democratic presidential nomination...