Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take the federal government. Please. Just joking. I love the federal government as much as the next guy, maybe more. But I was surprised to read in The Capital Spotlight, a weekly Black newspaper in Washington, about Carlos Campbell, a preppy-looking Black man who was appointed by President Reagan as Assistant Secretary of Commerce...
...second day on the job, Campbell arrived to find his office in ruins. "Vandals broke into my office, overturned furniture, smashed a photo of my wife and daughter, and urinated in a jar of jelly beans which sat on my desk," he said in The Capital Spotlight. Hardly...
While friends in the audience ooh-ed and aah-ed at their cohorts in the spotlight, they reserved their loudest applause for the adept posing of the professionals...
Scenes of South African policemen lashing black demonstrators with leather whips called sjamboks have become all too familiar. Last week a young government doctor turned the spotlight on another pervasive form of police violence: the beating and torturing of detained prisoners. Dr. Wendy Orr, 25, who noted that inmates she treated in two Port Elizabeth prisons were often physically abused, sought a restraining order against the police. Said she: "Detainees are being taken out of my care . . . and during the course of interrogation are brutally assaulted." In an official acknowledgment of such violence in South African jails, the state supreme...
While RUS supports the right to disassociation, Pellegrini says she does not believe that putting particular professors in the public spotlight is the best way to free students from having to associate with certain professors...