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...commitment to compassionate liberalism that he exudes in every apearance, Cuomo has not used his political clout to put fellow liberals in office. Rather, he exhorted and endorsed two unknowns for state-wide Democratic nomination so as to keep himself--and only himself--in New York's liberal spotlight...
...Catholic school--Boston College--briefly moved into the spotlight on the strength of Doug Flutie and his "Hail Mary" pass against Miami. BC lost the national championship that year to the Mormons...
...playgrounds, Tisch was a student at New York University. At Harvard Law School in 1946, he seemed to have a bright future, but then he dropped out. Some 40 years later, having become a tycoon while keeping a low profile, Tisch, 63, has suddenly thrust himself into an unfamiliar spotlight at the helm of CBS, one of America's best-known corporations...
...what nearly every account of this yearly meeting has begged. It is not all weirdness going down. It is, in the words of Dale Brown, a ventriloquist from Waukesha, Wis., "a family affair aimed at educating young and amateur ventriloquists, promoting the art of ventriloquism, and providing a spotlight for some of the country's best-known professionals." Further, according to Brown and other organizers of the event, the vents (for that is what they call one another) are a little ticked off at being picked on by the press as odd, for theirs is no more odd than...
...honors, however, the persistent question plaguing many minds on the eve of celebration is whether Harvard may be flaunting yesterday's gardenias and still merits the rank of premier U.S. university. The question arises in part because of Harvard's eminence. "Harvard does tend to live in the spotlight," observes Berkeley Chancellor Ira Michael Heyman. By the same token, Harvard may be more closely scrutinized because the challenges confronting it are those confronting most major universities; how Harvard copes may point to the future direction of much of higher education. Says Christopher Fordham, chancellor of the University of North Carolina...