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...Boxing must be grateful that college basketball's broken nose has stolen the spotlight from its own umpteenth "black eye." These allegations come on the heels of a ruling by a United States District judge striking down as racially biased the NCAA's Proposition 48, which requires certain minimum test scores (qualified by grade point average) in order for freshmen to be eligible for college athletics...
...said she attempted to shield her children from the media spotlight during her campaigns, a move that brought her criticism from people who thought she should have used her family more...
Although the recent upswing in capital punishment has put the spotlight on a parade of evildoers, they have tended to come straight out of Central Casting : poor, lower-class hard-luck cases for whom murder was the defining moment of their lives -- think Karla Faye Tucker, or Texas dragging murderer James William King. But the death sentence handed down Tuesday to former state prosecutor and political adviser Thomas Capano for the murder of a secretary to the governor of Delaware brings the death penalty to a far more rarefied social stratum. Indeed, when was the last time a rich, powerful...
...crowded really, a Faculty vote and extensive media coverage have brought issues of sexual violence on campus into the spotlight...
...that we munched while waiting for our big debut in karaoke singing. A Good Time employee, dressed in a black outfit the size of a bandana, kicked off the routines with a disturbingly amazing voice. We're talking serious vocal cords of gospel proportions. Our anticipated moment in the spotlight did, in fact, come: "Eloise Austin and Joanna Hootnick, youuuuu're up!" We slunk up to the microphone and looked at our shoelaces while our two devoted Harvard fans whistled and heckled. We both gave each other a "what-the-hell-do-we-have-to-lose" glance and busted...