Word: limelight
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Court TV picked up the Cambridge trial live, bringing the case into the homes of millions of viewers. The network had originally planned to follow the sexual assault case against basketball star Kobe Bryant but an abrupt dismissal of the case brought Pring-Wilson into the national limelight...
...Kennedy, she sure doesn’t adore the limelight...
...deadly civil war in southern Sudan languished out of the limelight for more than two decades. But Harvard’s move to divest from PetroChina grabbed headlines both locally and in far-flung papers—from Singapore’s Straits Times to the Paris-based International Herald Tribune...
...then has obesity hogged the limelight that physical activity also deserves? It's partly because being overweight is a more conspicuous problem. You can see it with your eyes, you can measure it on a scale. Fitness isn't so easy to size up. "Fitness is not a matter of being skinny," says Carlos Crespo, professor of social and preventive medicine at the University at Buffalo in New York. "It's a matter of being healthy." Experts like Crespo talk about seven components of fitness, a list that varies a bit from study to study but typically goes something like...
...limelight won't be of any help to Villaraigosa as he goes about running the nation's second biggest city, however. He inherits an education system that graduates only 45% of its students from high school, festering gang violence and the worst traffic in the nation. Critics say the mayor-elect is short on substance--"an empty suit," in the words of Joel Kotkin of the nonpartisan New America Foundation, a public-policy think tank. A liberal at heart, Villaraigosa was a union organizer and then president of the Southern California branch of the A.C.L.U. before getting elected...