Word: limelighting
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...vigilante violence, have yet to gain the full confidence of the international community. This holds most true for India, whose foreign policy establishment is still reeling from the overthrow of Nepal's ancien regime and the political elites it had previously patronized. Though India helped vault Dahal into the limelight by forcing Nepal's monarchy into peace talks with his rebels, certain circles in New Delhi harbor a fundamental distrust for the Maoists as India reckons with its own ongoing Marxist-Leninist revolt. Ajai Sahni, a prominent analyst and the director of the Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management, insisted...
...pleasures of the Olympics is to revel in performances from athletes you've never heard of before. When multimillionaire professionals like tennis' Williams sisters share in the Olympic limelight, it's heartening that they want to represent their nation. But while the participation of such mega-stars can sometimes take away from the achievement of lesser-knowns, homegrown talent may have the upperhand in women's tennis this year. Six days into the Beijing Games, both Serena and Venus had exited, the older sister dispatched by none other than China...
...musicians found themselves in the midst of the hype storm about Seattle bands. Nirvana exploded into prominence first, with its anthemic Smells Like Teen Spirit. When Pearl Jam drew attention as the Next Big Seattle Sound, Nirvana's Cobain seemed to bristle at sharing the limelight, dismissing Pearl Jam as retrorockers and copycats...
...Though she shies from the limelight, behind the scenes A. Clayton Spencer is one of the most influential officials at Harvard...
...three-room house with neither electricity nor running water, and his parents both left school at the age of 14. But most Harvard students know him only as the man who put an end to the free booze.A man who spent much of his career eschewing the limelight, former Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam found himself at the helm of both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the College over the past year and half—serving as the interim dean of the Faculty last spring when Jeremy R. Knowles fell ill and as the interim...