Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard entered the national spotlight in 1993 when it began a big-city-style crackdown on teenage gang members that raised eyebrows. The town passed an ordinance making it illegal to wear "colors, emblems or insignia" indicating gang membership or sympathies. The symbols included such articles as a star of David, a Dallas Cowboys jacket and a Georgetown baseball...
Young Democrats were in the spotlight all week, during a convention whose delegates' average age was the youngest in its history...
Already, the chances at success for these four women look better than those of their predecessor. Three of them have Citadel family ties, and all four hope to avoid the extraordinary glare of the spotlight that contributed to Faulkner's demise. As Robert Black, who served as a lawyer for Faulkner, puts it, "Shannon always, always wanted to please the Citadel. But in order to get into the school, she had to go to court. It was a cruel situation." Seventeen-year-old Kim Messer's father is an Army veteran, and her elder brother attended the Citadel before leaving...
...wish these jerks up there would get off their butts and tell the truth," G. Watson Bryant, Jewell's original attorney, told Fulton after the press conference as he pointed toward the local FBI offices. The truth, says Fulton, is that the FBI has proved unwilling to lift the spotlight off Jewell with no other suspects in hand. -->