Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also has a new class--fourth-graders--to help carry out the campaign. By Christmas, she and her new charges hope to send enough money to Christian Solidarity to have freed 1,000 Sudanese. While that is but a small number of those believed held in bondage (and the spotlight may raise the price of freedom), it doesn't diminish the spirit of the kids. Says Joshua Hook, 10: "This is a big wrong, and we're helping make it a right." Says classmate Lindy deSpain, 9: "It feels good to know that more people will be coming home...
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is extremely unsettling. In the tight darkness of Leverett Old Library, our distance from the riots is shattered as we descend the steps into the arena where we sit, often catching stray spotlight and in full view of the other audience members and actors. The space affords little of the accustomed anonymity, and from the start it becomes clear that the aim is not to please, but to trouble...
Yasser Arafat has begun to share an unhappy place with Benjamin Netanyahu -- in the spotlight of Palestinian anger. At least 40 people were wounded Monday in clashes over the prisoner release issue, but Israel's freeing of petty thieves rather than political prisoners is in keeping with the letter of the Wye Accord. "Arafat may complain that it violates the 'spirit' of Wye, but there was no spirit in this agreement," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "The accord was negotiated in bad faith and neither side will do anything they're not compelled...
Berger cringes at the spotlight, fearful of bruising other egos, but there is no denying his insider status and influence. He and Clinton have known each other since 1972 when they worked together on George McGovern's presidential campaign. At the end of their daily national security briefings, they often swap jokes or answers to especially nettlesome crossword clues...
...dilemma and felt no one else was listening," says Barlett. "It's a measure of how strongly people feel about this subject." In addition to pleasing readers, the series has garnered favorable attention from other media outlets. On its editorial page the Boston Herald wrote, "This could refocus the spotlight on an issue that attracted notice two years ago when Congress was reforming individual welfare, but slipped off the national radar screen when that reform was enacted." Molly Ivins, in her syndicated column, wrote, "To what depth, breadth and height can corporate welfare reach?...Barlett and Steele not only...