Word: spotlights
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Fundraising for libraries and faculty chairs-two areas that have lagged-will receive particular focus this year. Though the central administration fund-unrestricted moneys for the President and support for the inter-faculty initiatives-also lags, the administration has decided not to spotlight this area for fear it will detract from the individual schools' efforts, said Thomas M. Reardon, vice president for alumni affairs and development...
...about sacrifice. She may have escaped her marriage in search of love, but there was no escaping us. Her grip on our imagination was too firm, the bounty on her head too high. By choosing to continue with her duties, to go where she was needed and drag the spotlight with her, she gave up any chance of ever driving quietly through Paris on an August night...
...many others, which underscores the larger issue. A Harvard survey of 18,000 undergraduates found that 44% said they had engaged in binge drinking--four to five drinks in a row--in the previous two weeks. "Most schools realize they are just one tragedy away from being in the spotlight themselves," says Debra Erenberg, an alcohol-policy associate at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. To combat excessive drinking, colleges in recent years have taken such steps as establishing alcohol-free dorms and writing letters to parents of hard-drinking students. But critics contend the L.S.U. tragedy shows...
...Phair was using naughty words long before Meredith Brooks set out to use the word bitch as a means of empowerment, and Ani DiFranco was shaking things up while Jewel was still reading by candlelight on the granola farm. You made a mistake in choosing to shine the spotlight on the popular yet sophomoric Jewel. The Lilith Fair music festival exists because it was McLachlan's idea, not because of Jewel. ANNE DAVIDSEN Timonium...
Democratic senator John Glenn in his opening statement attacking the Republicans shows he remembers that the best defense is a good offense. During the Nixon years, we saw the Republicans hunker down when they were being investigated. Now the Democrats are in the spotlight, they are taking the offensive. But these hearings are not just politics as usual, and they should not be made partisan, as Glenn has tried to do. We must let Congress freely investigate questionable practices. I recall as a child watching TV and seeing Glenn in space. I have respected him most of my adult life...