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...just the gruesomeness of the Noida murders that has captured India's attention, but the fact that they spotlight glaring inequalities in Indian society-and raise questions about whom public officials truly serve. Police have detained Moninder Singh Pandher, a businessman who lives in Noida, and his servant Surender Kohli, and charged them with kidnapping, rape and murder. While Kohli has confessed to the killings, Pandher's lawyer denies the charges against his client. But it's what the police did not do that has sparked outrage. Thirty-eight women and children had been reported missing from the slum over...
...back's final lesson is simple yet falls on deaf ears in a league full of showboaters: Don't hog the spotlight. Are you listening, Terrell Owens? "I don't like the attention," Tomlinson says. "It's annoying at times." Although he would still be the league's top player on almost any other team, LT showers constant praise on his teammates, and the endless accolades he receives cause him consternation. When the best player in football suppresses his ego, how can anyone else call attention to himself? "It's learned behavior," says Chargers tight end Antonio Gates...
...cool that on the one chance I ever had to play BC, we beat them.”The shake-up in the Boston area will likely be small, as Harvard doesn’t count solely upon local recruits to fill its roster. But it does take the spotlight off of Chestnut Hill for the briefest of moments and shines it instead on Harvard.“You know, Lindsay was the girl with the posters who was looking for autographs at BC games,” co-captain Christiana Lackner said. “Maybe we?...
...this could be the good news. As the first female Speaker and a San Francisco liberal, Pelosi can use this moment in the spotlight to define herself as anything but a bleeding heart. Pelosi's brazen decision to have her "People's Open House" be invitation-only could paint her as cynical or, with the right spin, as simply a savvy realist. A successful reintroduction for Pelosi should combine the warm fuzzy of a northern California family woman with the bare-knuckle skills of a backroom pol: the iron grandma...
...concept was just that I would...create a really wild performance art night that would include the band but that would also star the audience itself,” Palmer says. “There would be a spotlight on the audience almost throughout the entire show, and it would be less of a play and more of an ongoing environment into which you would step for a couple of hours...