Word: spotlighting
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...afforded by a near-$15 billion endowment, should carry the vision and emphasis on education into the national arena. The nature of the post is such that the efforts made by the president are as symbolic as the choice of the leader. Rudenstine made occasional ventures into the national spotlight, advocating affirmative action programs and funding for university research, but his heart, or at least his agenda, was clearly in the schmoozing and the money. Our wealth and prestige leave us in a comfortable position to promote secondary and especially primary education throughout the nation...
Meanwhile, his detractors can gain satisfaction that his antics will remain forever marginalized. Completely removed from the spotlight, his chair-throwing, referee-harassing theatrics will have almost no audience and fade away from ESPN's purview...
This happens sometimes: an athlete announces a bid for multiple medals and lays siege to the spotlight. Spitz, Heiden, Lewis, Blair. Michael Johnson with his 200-m/400-m double an Olympiad ago. "It's great to be the headliner," says Johnson, who seems relieved that he qualified to run only the 400 m this time around. "But it's very intense, an awful lot of pressure...
...winner. He has won Olympic gold twice and silver once, and is a gold-medal contender in Sydney. He has been the master of his discipline for 15 years. Yet he's unknown--for it's the fate of rapid-fire pistol shooters not to make it into the spotlight but to disappear, as their bullets must, into a dark circle...
...This happens sometimes: an athlete announces a bid for multiple medals and lays siege to the spotlight. Spitz, Heiden, Lewis, Blair. Michael Johnson with his 200-m/400-m double an Olympiad ago. "It's great to be the headliner," says Johnson, who seems relieved that he qualified to run only the 400 m this time around. "But it's very intense, an awful lot of pressure...