Word: limelight
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...taking place (or wait, was that just House Day?), but leave our “big-time” sports out of it. We get enough slack for everything else, and as much as it might hurt, it’s best to keep our sports out of the limelight until we give reason to the contrary. I’d love for us and our draft brethren to matter, but we don’t. In fact, I shouldn’t even be writing this column...
...distance from such measures, leaving them to spd Cabinet members instead. "The Chancellor should put her foot down for painful reforms," says Thierse. Maybe, but judging by her performance so far, that's just not her style. Merkel appears to prefer working behind the scenes to basking in the limelight. She has brought a collegial atmosphere to the Chancellery that is proving wildly popular. "Suddenly a woman in black enters the stage without any pomp or circumstance and talks in a quite straightforward manner - analytically," says Gerd Langguth, a political scientist at Bonn University. "People like that." Cabinet meetings...
...Indeed, many of the protesters say their actions amount to a last stand for French workers against the predations of what they call "Anglo-Saxon ultraliberalism," as practiced in the United States, Great Britain and most of the rest of the world. But while the protesters take the limelight, often accompanied by anarchists who?ve never sat through a class, other students complain that they?re being prevented from taking key exams they need to graduate - and, yes, get jobs...
...seven, plus a shared gold in pairs' figure skating. Do the Olympics mean something more to female athletes? "I think the women have something to prove," says Karin Lofstrom, executive director of the Canadian Association of Women and Sport. "This is their time to shine, to be in the limelight, and it's to their credit they're able to produce when they have one shot...
...goes undercover to find out who is at the bottom of all the trouble. Unfortunately, all the passengers are suspiciously odd: conniving child-star, little Miss Dee Meanor (John P. Blickstead ’06), has grown outgrown her years of stardom and will do anything to regain the limelight; her bowlegged, swastika-loving director, Jurgen Aregretzat (Phillips), has one passion in life—to reestablish Hitler’s regime; a mute silent-film actress (Sean R. Fredricks ‘07), pops up whenever secrets are being shared; Barry Dreasure (Michael B. Hoagland...