Word: spotlighting
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...best-kept secret," Fellowship old-timers like to say. Since 1937, the group's 3,000 paid and 45,000 volunteer missionaries have been diligently teaching, preaching and expanding with one simple goal: persuading small children to become born again. Now the organization has thrust itself in the spotlight by fighting all the way to the Supreme Court for the official right to do so in public schools. The court's decision, expected any day now, will help define just how far religious groups can go in using schools as a mission field...
...months to live, but he went on to be South Africa's longest surviving AIDS orphan. But it was not only his longevity that made Nkosi unique among the estimated 800,000 AIDS orphans in South Africa, whose number grows by 70,000 every year. Propelled into the media spotlight by the AIDS activist community, Nkosi Johnson became the human face of a plague to which the South African authorities had responded sluggishly...
...Bush girls have had plenty of time in the spotlight, both as daughters of the governor and as members of the Bush clan. But none of the local press?s gentle pawing could have prepared them for the savagery of the national feeding frenzy...
Bush has said he has no desire to be President or even a Senator. He claims he's not a national figure; friends say he doesn't want to step into W.'s spotlight. During the offshore-drilling dispute, when reporters asked if Jeb could lick W. in a fight, Jeb smiled and let down his guard. "The Secret Service," he said, "might not let me near him right...
STEALING THE SPOTLIGHT FROM MISS AFGHANISTAN