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...take to Yankees games. Now, over dinner, just as he had once told them he was gay, he made another sudden declaration: "I told them, 'I want you to know, I never touched your children.'" They looked at him like he was crazy. But in the glare of the spotlight, he says, he is guilty until proved innocent...
...winter brought a women’s basketball team that dominated from the start of the Ivy League season to the finish. Ending the year 13-1 in conference play and earning a trip to the NCAA tournament, Harvard found itself in the national spotlight, taking on the highly-touted Tar Heels in round one of March Madness. Though North Carolina defeated Harvard, the Crimson should be back in the Big Dance next season. Sophomore Hana Peljto and freshman Reka Cserny combined to form a dynamic duo that should dominate Ivy competition for the next two years. Sophomore Tricia Tubridy...
...spotlight of Rilya's story may lead to yet another overhaul of Florida's child-protection system: Governor Jeb Bush is pushing a bill that would make the failure to report a missing child a felony. It's unlikely, though, that that would have helped Rilya, whose disappearance has stumped police. Investigators say one of their best leads is a murdered child discovered in April 2001 in Kansas City, Mo., and they are awaiting DNA evidence to see whether Rilya has been found at last. --Reported by Jeanne DeQuine and Kathie Klarreich/Miami
...Lauryn Hill in 1998. She won five Grammys, including Album of the Year, and sold 12 million records, but ever since she has been cruising on fame's dark side. First, she was sued by members of her band who demanded Miseducation production credits. Then she disappeared from the spotlight, sparking persistent rumors that had her fighting with her former band mates in the Fugees, becoming an Evangelical Christian or dealing with serious marital problems. Hill has not done a lengthy interview in two years. All she has admitted publicly is that she underwent a paralyzing identity crisis brought...
More specifically, it is European xenophobia and racist intolerance that have catapulted Le Pen and his ilk in Austria, Britain, Italy, Norway, Belgium and Germany into the rosy spotlight of political legitimacy. Scapegoating “immigrants” (nonwhites) as the cause of shrinking employment opportunities, these politicians have preyed upon the fears and biases of populations stung by economic instability. Tough immigration policies are touted as a cure-all for rising crime rates. Non-whites are accused of defiling the homogenous, cultural purity of Western European countries...