Word: limelight
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...Though she shies from the limelight, behind the scenes A. Clayton Spencer is one of the most influential officials at Harvard...
...three-room house with neither electricity nor running water, and his parents both left school at the age of 14. But most Harvard students know him only as the man who put an end to the free booze.A man who spent much of his career eschewing the limelight, former Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam found himself at the helm of both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the College over the past year and half—serving as the interim dean of the Faculty last spring when Jeremy R. Knowles fell ill and as the interim...
...Unlike his fellow classmates, Kenyatta, who died in 1992, was a much older and experienced student who would not shy away from the limelight...
...where people at times weren't happy with my work because they have their own ideas of what things should look like. I read a few of them and then stopped. You do the best you can. It's pretty high pressure, because [the series] is so in the limelight. But by the same token, that passionate fan is also the most appreciative fan. I get a lot of great fan mail. Most people I talk to are really appreciative of the work...
High-profile visits by political figures are relatively rare in Najaf, the quiet holy city in southern Iraq where Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani lives. Sistani, the most venerated Shi'ite religious leader in the country, shuns the limelight. But it fell his way last week nonetheless when Iraqi Prime Ministry Nouri al-Maliki and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker appeared in Najaf separately within days of each other. It raised questions whether Sistani is making a comeback as a voice in political decision-making in Iraq...