Word: limelighted
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...critics allege that Dershowitz embroils himself with such controverial figures out of a need for the limelight...
Hollywood, Fla., is an overlooked burg outshone by Miami on one side and Fort Lauderdale on the other, trying to grab some limelight with a string of sushi and blues restaurants. One such establishment is Shuckums Oyster Pub and Seafood Grill, a music showcase with the requisite life-size shark mounted on an ocean-colored wall. It was at Shuckums, on Sept. 8, that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi did some pre-mass murder tippling. Atta drank vodka and orange juice, while Al-Shehhi preferred rum and cokes, five drinks apiece. "They were wasted," the bartender recalled, and Atta...
What do Muslims and Arabs at Harvard have to say about this tragedy and their being thrust into a contemptuous limelight? Fifteen Minutes gathered a group of eight Muslim Americans and Arab Americans from across the Harvard community to find out. The eight consisted of: Saif I. Mohammed Shah 02, President of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS); Zayed Yasin 02, former president of HIS and president of the Harvard Friends of the American Red Cross for the past two years; Rita Hamad 03, president of the Society of Arab Students; Yassine Daoud, second year student at Harvard Medical School; Laila...
...sequel to the propaganda bonanza that was Elian I may backfire on the Cubans. It was, after all, the image of a child's emotional life being torn apart by politics that made the anti-Castro forces the losers last time around. Bringing the boy back into the political limelight in New York might well play the other way. Or, to put it in culinary terms, you can't reheat a souffl?...
...limited to just a few labs, even if there are only a few dozen cell lines," he says. "That's the most important thing." Such altruistic concern for the progress of his chosen science is characteristic of the man. Even before he was caught in the limelight, he went about his experiments so conscientiously that they set the ethical standard by which all research in the field is measured...