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...missing shots with penitential 30-second loops; hockey players serve sentences for penalties that seem to last for years. Of course, this is true in every sport, or every life that knows a slip, a birth, a marriage, but in the Olympics an athlete comes into the spotlight for a second and then, in most cases, disappears into oblivion for four years. The first question asked of the first male gold medalist, Austrian downhiller Patrick Ortlieb, was whether he had thought, during his run, of his teammate Gernot Reinstadler, who died in a race last year. He couldn...
Such traits take on new value in police departments that have come under fire for the brutal treatment of suspects in their custody. The videotaped beating of motorist Rodney King by four Los Angeles cops last year threw a spotlight on the use of excessive force by police. The number of reports continues to remain high across the country after the furor that followed that attack. Female officers have been conspicuously absent from these charges: the independent Christopher commission, which investigated the L.A.P.D. in the aftermath of the King beating, found that the 120 officers with the most...
...returning to the court and living in the spotlight, Magic is truly saying: "Well, kids, in November I told you to practice safe sex or you will end up like me. But to tell you the truth, I'm fine. You don't need to be as careful anymore...
When the tiny, very pretty freshman from Providence College took the stand, Tyson finally had to cede his searchlight-spotlight to a co-star. At that moment the sense of the procedure finally shifted from a test of a celebrity's mettle, or the dilemma of Tyson the legend vs. Tyson the man, to a familiarly tragic story of men's dangerous urges and women's rightful fears...
...result of the meeting was a bland resolution urging expansion of United Nations peacekeeping efforts. But the mere fact that the first ever summit meeting of the Security Council convened testified to the U.N.'s growing clout. Of the 15 members, 13 sent heads of government; two grabbed the spotlight. Russian President Boris Yeltsin was trying to shed his image as a hard-drinking oaf. Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng was trying to shed his pariah status as the Butcher of Beijing...