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...transfixed the country. As police combed Rock Creek Park in Northwest Washington for signs of the missing woman, tips rushed in: Levy was buried in Virginia, or at the bottom of the Potomac, or had become pregnant and fled. Not until the attacks of Sept. 11 did the media spotlight trained on the case begin to flicker. Finally, on May 22, 2002, a man walking his dog in a Rock Creek Park ravine discovered Levy's remains. What he thought was a turtle shell turned out to be her skull...
...House when his term expired in 2003. Aside from a tumultuous stint running two Baskin-Robbins franchises, he and his wife have filed several lawsuits to rehabilitate his shattered image. Levy's family, meanwhile, was forced to endure the prolonged nightmare of their daughters' disappearance under a media spotlight - and a long-delayed wait for justice. "This helps a little," Susan Levy said of reports that Guandique's arrest is imminent. "But we still don't have our daughter and we have a life sentence without her. Grief is like a marathon. You don't get over...
...above all, this midday fete is engineered to give the movie's star one final turn in the spotlight. By the time Winslet arrives, she has already participated in several hours of diligent self-exposure that day, illuminating for both Larry King and the women of The View the complexities of pretending to have sex with Leonardo DiCaprio in the bleak marital drama Revolutionary Road while the film's director, Sam Mendes - her husband - watched. (See TIME's Oscar Guide: Best Actress...
...some respects, President Obama has only himself to blame for the current controversy. As a presidential candidate, the then Senator himself pointed a spotlight on the legislation he co-sponsored when he told the Planned Parenthood Action Fund in 2007 that "the first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing...
...Just when it seemed that the Rod Blagojevich corruption scandal might actually recede from the spotlight, with the accused governor booted out of office and his seemingly unimpeachable Senate pick Roland Burris firmly ensconced in Washington, comes another baffling chapter in the saga. (See pictures of the remarkable world of Rod Blagojevich...