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Kids say and do the darnedest things. I guess I knew that already, but I was confronted with examples in every class. For instance, we had this one student, Adrian, who was constantly starved for the spotlight. Every once in a while, he would decide he wasn't getting enough attention and just sit down in the middle of the dance. Never an excuse. He just felt like sitting down...
Harvard's brightest stars--its well-respected and well-treated faculty members--keep the Harvard name in the national spotlight. Their names appear in newspaper articles, their faces on television, their opinions in the magazines of the country's intelligentsia...
Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Lawrence H. Tribe '62 seems to get more and more of the national spotlight. Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court ruled in Tribe's favor a case he had argued before the high court. The ruling leaves tobacco companies more vulnerable to lawsuits from smokers...
...lament and, later, a mother's dirge for her murdered son, whose words were inscribed in 1944 on the wall of a Gestapo prison. The result is chilling, moving, unique. With the collapse of communism, Poland's reclusive Gorecki, 59, is just now finding his way into the international spotlight. May it shine upon...
...blast of national exposure that money couldn't buy for Souljah, Clinton and Jackson. What really fueled the curious coming together of politicians, a "revolutionary" rapper and a multibillion-dollar entertainment conglomerate was their shared concern for the bottom line. Clinton achieved a key political objective: refocusing the media spotlight on his message to moderate voters that he is unafraid to deliver unpopular messages to important Democratic constituencies, including blacks. Jackson, who has been groping for a way to elbow into the campaign, obtained a grievance that he can use to browbeat Clinton for concessions. Lenin is supposed to have...