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...Choosing Kacyvenski as the Male Athlete of the Year was an easy decision. Based purely on his on-field accomplishments, he shone as the best defensive player in the Ivy this year and demonstrated improvement in all four seasons. His hard work enabled him to develop an NFL body, and Kacyvenski was on the minds of every offensive coordinator and running back Harvard played...
...Crimson defense, which had carried Harvard through the Eastern Championships a week earlier, shone in the second quarter. Harvard held Hawaii to a lone goal in the period. However, the Crimson was unable to get points on the board itself. Unable to capitalize on several break opportunities, the Crimson was held scoreless for a full seven minutes, and faced a 6-3 deficit at halftime...
...spotlight shone on Sahadi during the post position draw for the Santa Anita Derby, when a subsequently much-publicized feud broke out between her and Bob Baffert, who trains Derby hopeful Captain Steve. Baffert, the silver-haired and mean-mouthed bad guy of racing (of a fellow trainer who suffered from Bell's Palsy, Baffert once commented, "He talks like Mister Magoo"), slighted Sahadi when he asked jockey Chris McCarron, who rides The Deputy, "Who's training this horse, you or Jenine?" Sahadi laughed last when The Deputy pasted Captain Steve by six lengths, and quickly became the media darling...
With that, the sun finally shone on Prestifilippo at Boston's grandest tournament. Those vacant canary seats were not the setting Prestifilippo imagined for his only win, but it didn't diminish the significance...
...picture that shocked the world was the one widely broadcast of Johnny and the cigar-smoking Luther, still at large. The spectacle of foreign jungle fighters commanded by illiterate, messianic twins forcing their way into a modern medical facility was as bizarre as it was outrageous. But it shone the global spotlight for a moment on one of the century's longest-running insurgencies, where ethnic minorities have been struggling for some form of autonomy from the government of Burma since the country's independence...