Word: limelighted
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...preference for John McCain in 2008 - in the hope that McCain would select Joe as his vice-presidential running mate. Although a Lieberman crossover would turn control of the Senate back to the Republicans, a 2008 gain in the Senate by the Dems would force him out of the limelight he so assiduously craves. The reality is that most people see through his machinations. He might consider a crash course in chess before it's checkmate for his political influence. Fred Plemenos, Lexington, Massachusetts...
...Bush war cabinet. During Bush's first term, the views of the U.S.'s diplomatic corps were largely dismissed by neoconservatives allied with Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. But as the Iraq war drags on and its chief advocates fade, the diplomats are stealing some late-game limelight. That's due in large part to Rice, who has consolidated her authority over the Administration's foreign policy and made course corrections that have resulted in a denuclearization pact with North Korea, a new push in the Middle East and tentative moves toward negotiating with Iran and Syria about...
...look back, earning Donato’s confidence.Tobe, meanwhile, was rarely called upon, forced to rely on practices to get ice time. And though he had been playing hockey for 17 years, he finally decided he had to explore other options.But the prospect of returning to the limelight never escaped his attention.“As I stopped playing a little bit and didn’t get as many chances, I felt that it was probably in my best interests to at least look at job opportunities or apply to graduate schools,” he explains...
With her time as gatekeeper of the Radcliffe Institute coming to an end, Dean Drew Gilpin Faust will step into the limelight when she assumes Harvard’s top post on July 1, 2007. But what exactly goes on at her secluded Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study? The Radcliffe Institute is the smallest of the University’s schools; established on October 1, 1999, the Institute is a by-product of the final sublimation of Radcliffe College into Harvard. Dean Faust arrived on the scene in 2001, just as Radcliffe was making the transition from...
...Hariri was running the family's business empire in Saudi Arabia when his father's murder propelled the soft-spoken then-35-year-old second son into the unforgiving limelight of Lebanese politics. As political heir to his father, he has had to endure a crash course in Lebanese politics while staying one step ahead of the assassins that continue to prowl this country. Four leading politicians and journalists have been killed in the two years since his father's death, the last being Pierre Gemayel, the industry minister, who was gunned down in his car last November...