Word: spotlighting
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Freshman Michael Biega seized the spotlight with hat-trick heroics against Yale in New Haven last night. Putting up his first three career goals, the forward took care of the Harvard men’s hockey team’s half of a balanced final score at 3-3. With less than two minutes remaining in the 3rd period and the score leaning in favor of the Crimson 3-2, The Bulldogs (3-3-3, 2-2-3 ECAC), desperate to score, chanced an empty net by subbing in an extra attacker. Their guile was rewarded when Yale forward Denny...
...history judges leaders on their handling of the national interest, not on their emotional touch. After Annapolis, the two sides will pursue the tough final-status peace issues in small groups, with the U.S. playing referee. It is how the President performs in that context - out of the spotlight, in the weeds - that will determine how history judges his late-blooming passion for diplomacy...
...Into the spotlight Surprising as Rudd's popularity was to the Coalition, it was even more so to some of his Labor colleagues. Prissy, bookish, and married to a multimillionaire businesswoman, he wasn't exactly everyone's picture of the Aussie working-class man, though he lost few opportunities to remind people he'd grown up on a Queensland farm. "If he grew up in poverty in rural Queensland," sneered former Labor leader Latham, "where did the posh accent come from?" Advising Rudd to "take the piss" out of himself, his brother Greg reportedly said: "You're just not that...
Three prominent Massachusetts political couples celebrated an important American first lady and her husband last night, but it was letters of friendship and intimacy, not healthcare policy or a plan for Iraq that captured the spotlight...
...Egger is not the only nonprofit leader using next year's early primaries to thrust his agenda into the national spotlight. Bill Gates, whose foundation is the world's largest philanthropy, last month called on presidential contenders to commit to expanding the President's Malaria Initiative, a $1.2 billion effort started by President Bush in 2005 to cut malaria deaths by 50% in 15 African nations. "I hope you will join us in asking all of the candidates to make this pledge and keep the fight against malaria on the national agenda," Gates wrote in an October 19 blog post...