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...their California strategy is not a concession to defeat but a smartly calculated best shot at a come-from-behind win. If nothing else, they say, it will keep alive national media attention to Dole, something that a big push in less glittery Indiana wouldn't do. And that spotlight, Dole's advisers hope, could convince voters generally that Dole is not yesterday's news. "It energizes your base in other places when you see Bob Dole fighting for California," says Steve Merksamer, who was statewide head of the Bush campaign...
Even after preaching for a quarter of a century, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes says he still shuns the spotlight...
...tour in 1994, Duritz decided to move to Los Angeles from Berkeley, California, where he had been an English major at the University of California before dropping out. Convinced that his music was in some way causing people to hate him, he stopped composing and tried to avoid the spotlight. He had planned to lay low in L.A. but, instead, ended up doing the one thing in this celebrity-crazed country that, short of a lengthy trial for the brutal slaying of an ex-wife and her companion, would most guarantee that the media glare would find him: he started...
...songwriting. Bad dates, long-distance affairs, the desperate wait for the phone to ring, all resonate in his lyrics. Almost all the songs on Recovering the Satellites are written in the first person, and the first half of the album dwells on Duritz's struggles with the media spotlight. Goodnight Elisabeth is a melancholy ballad about a woman (not Aniston) Duritz dated who had trouble dealing with his constant touring. Have You Seen Me Lately? is a forceful rocker that examines Duritz's uneasy romance with fame ("You got a piece of me/ But it's just a little piece...
...keynote address delivered at the same convention by Indiana Governor Evan Bayh shone the national spotlight on a topic that epitomizes the schism of philosophy in this year's presidential election: "In this election, no issue more clearly defines the differences between the two major parties and their nominees than education...