Word: spotlighting
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Make gaffes while in the spotlight...
...winning the mayoral election by a landslide. His opponent from 2002, who served as mayor of Newark for two decades, was convicted of five counts of fraud in April from charges stemming from land deals he had made in office. Booker’s place in the political spotlight is nearly as closely monitored as that of other Ivy-league educated, black politicians—namely Barack Obama, n Law School graduate who the mayor has vocally supported in the 2008 presidential campaign, and Deval L. Patrick ’78, another Law School graduate who is also the only...
This was a year of new beginnings for the University and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), with a new president and a new dean at their helms. For University President Drew G. Faust, who was in the national spotlight as Harvard’s first female leader, the pressure was particularly strong. Fortunately for her and for the University, Faust proved up to the challenges of her inaugural year. She responded skillfully to the tasks before her, from her appointment of numerous administrators, to the creation of a task force aimed at increasing interdisciplinary cooperation in a field...
After three years of playing second skipper on the Harvard sailing team, senior Kyle Kovacs finally got a chance to step into the spotlight. And boy, did he shine. The former captain of the Crimson squad racked up honor after honor in his final season, capping the fall campaign with a victory at the NEISA Singlehanded Championship. With the departure of his longtime training partner Clay Johnson ’07, a four-time winner of the NEISA singlehanded event, Kovacs stepped up admirably and kept the title in Cambridge for the ninth straight year...
...south, Kenya leapt from relative tranquility into the media spotlight in January, after contested elections roiled longstanding ethnic tensions, and whispers of civil war were heard. There, American leadership—perhaps itself chastened, perhaps merely overstretched—rightfully resisted the urge to evangelize with troop deployments, sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to assist with talks. As Kenya begins to heal after a power-sharing agreement that showed the continued utility of multilateral effort, the United States should continue to offer aid and counsel, nothing more...