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...body. In 1994 Carson and his wife Candy created a scholarship fund for top students in Grades 4 through 12. "I find that in a lot of schools, kids think it's not cool to be smart," Carson says. He would like young scholars to get some of the limelight that's usually trained on athletes...
...spend a whole week discussing ethnic violence in Indonesia or the Balkans or Burundi or England, slavery in the Sudan or the rights of indigenous peoples throughout the Americas. And too much focus on the Middle East might even help some governments keep their own skeletons out of the limelight...
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Historically, some of the nation’s most important education reforms have emerged from Harvard’s own bully pulpit. Soft-spoken Rudenstine, more suited to the shadows than the limelight, leaves Harvard’s podium considerably diminished...
Laura Nyro, just 19 and wearing a black gown with an angel's wing on her shoulder, got booed off the stage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. That may help explain why, for the rest of her career, this rock innovator shied away from the limelight, writing songs that others turned into hits (Stoned Soul Picnic for the 5th Dimension; And When I Die for Blood, Sweat and Tears; Stoney End for Barbra Streisand). The crowd at that landmark Monterey festival was more into high-energy rockers like Janis Joplin, for whom performing was as intoxicating as the heroin...