Word: spotlighting
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...Justin Martin spoke with Nader along with more than 300 people, including close associates, old friends, and family. The result is a sweeping portrait, covering Nader's small-town Connecticut boyhood, his days at Harvard law, the David-and-Goliath battle with GM that launched him into the spotlight, and colorful encounters with characters as varied as Albert Einstein, Gloria Steinem, Fidel Castro, Phil Donahue, Susan Sarandon, Upton Sinclair and Al Gore. The climax of this extraordinary story is an astonishingly revealing insider's account of the 2000 election...
...Dapper Don, the ruthless yet always impeccably groomed boss of the Gambino crime family; of throat cancer; in the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo. He had been serving a life sentence on murder and racketeering charges. The former juvenile delinquent from the South Bronx relished the spotlight, favoring $2,000 suits and tony restaurants, smirking throughout his four trials and winning populist-hero status in the tabloids. Although he had always claimed to be a $100,000- a-year plumbing salesman from Ozone Park, N.Y., Gotti was convicted in 1992 with the help of testimony from mob turncoat Sammy...
Dallas is about us as bishops. The spotlight has shifted from the priest who abuses to the bishop who doesn't handle the situation fairly. We must convince our people that first of all we are terribly open and contrite. And we have a firm resolve to mend our ways...
...Japan. It isn't just that the unfancied squad won its group?going undefeated against Russia, Belgium and Tunisia?thereby qualifying for the knockout stage of the tournament for the first time. It's the way they've succeeded, with an aggressive Day-Glo style that has commanded the spotlight at the world's premier sporting event, instantly lifting a dispirited nation. "Winning these games, the team gives us Japanese the power to be brave," says 18-year-old college student Hiroki Sakaue as he waits outside Osaka's Nagai Stadium for a glimpse of his new heroes. Says...
...world's spotlight remains on the face-off at the India-Pakistan border. But the 2,100-kilometer Thai-Burmese frontier is almost as tense?even without the shadow of a nuclear war. The clashes have plunged relations between Bangkok and Rangoon to their lowest point in years. Burma's junta has banned visits by Thai officials, expelled Thai workers and closed border crossings, while Thai army officers have accused Rangoon of warmongering...