Word: spotlighting
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Taking His Place In the Spotlight...
...global forum on racism and its remedies was never going to be a buy-the-world-a-Coke lovefest, but it's in danger of descending into a deeply weird Tower of Babel experience. Even the Middle East conflict, which has come to dominate the spotlight at the U.N.-sponsored World Conference Against Racism, produces its own strangely dissonant images: Hasidic Jews from New York bearing placards proclaiming that "Zionism equals Anti-Semitism," or Mary Robinson, the U.N.'s Irish Catholic human rights commissioner proclaiming that when she sees vicious anti-Semitic slurs, "I am a Jew." (Sorry, Mary...
...year, the wounds in the Cuban exile community may not be as easily healed. Castro's twilight years are proving to be curiously trying for his arch-enemies in Florida, precisely because they've placed the question of a post-Castro Cuba, and current U.S. policy, squarely in the spotlight. And whereas many of the older generation had lived much of their lives expecting to simply sail back in and turn back the clock following some cataclysmic event that would see Castro overthrown, the reality is beginning to dawn that the aging strongman is more likely to choose...
Gyorffy, ranked third on the world high jump performance list at the Hungarian national record height of two meters, will have her chance to deliver another medal-worthy performance in the finals on Sunday. If she succeeds, Harvard track and field will once again be in the international spotlight...
...Coming as it did near the end of a monumentally slow news week, the surprise announcement drew metric tons of media attention, and kept the vacationing President firmly in the spotlight. Saturday, Bush had left Washington for his ranch in Crawford, Texas on a high in the wake of several legislative triumphs, and his press office made sure each reporter had memorized every detail. In the course of one week, the Bushies noted, the President won over the famously hardheaded Charlie Norwood on the patients? bill of rights, shepherded his energy bill through the House, and spread new enthusiasm...