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Peter "Sid" Sidebottom's constituents, he says, don't much like being in the spotlight. Since 1998, the Labor M.P. has represented the federal seat of Braddon, a quiet, largely rural electorate in north-western Tasmania of around 62,000 voters, many of them farmers and fishermen. But one of the region's other industries, forestry, keeps bringing the residents of Braddon's towns and hamlets the kind of attention that makes Sidebottom furious. "Many hundreds" of his constituents depend on the state's forestry industry, he says, and if the campaign in this election to phase out logging...
...national debate over the morality of stem cell research—even though Ali works with umbilical cords, not embryos—has put her in the spotlight...
...reemergence into the football spotlight has coincided with the team’s brisk run to a 3-0 record...
...supporter of conservative Barry Goldwater. If I had been a Republican delegate this year, I would have walked out on Miller's tirade. That would also have spared me Dick Cheney's speech employing the politics of fear. To slot Miller with his venomous attack in the national spotlight as the keynote speaker says a lot about Bush's campaign strategy. Lowell Klessig Amherst Junction...
...almost three years until the presidential election, and that must seem an eternity to one as fond of the media glare as he is. That, of course, is why Chirac insisted that Sarkozy leave the Cabinet to take up the ump post. "Chirac is depriving [Sarkozy] of his government spotlight, betting that without much media exposure at the ump, [his] popularity will dwindle," says one ump official and a former Chirac adviser. Sarkozy doesn't deny the risk, but says he'll stay in the public eye. "There's very little risk you won't be hearing from...