Word: spotlights
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...JULY 1993, DEPUTY WHITE HOUSE counsel Vincent Foster wrote an anguished lament: "I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport." Nine days later, Foster was dead. Shock at the apparent suicide of one of President Clinton's top aides turned to mystery, then suspicion, as the White House became entangled in an ever widening net of questions. Among the confidential matters Foster was working on when he died was the Clintons' investment in Whitewater, an Arkansas land development launched in 1978 with the Clintons' partners...
...previous few months, including his belief that no one in the White House had violated any laws in the travel-office firings. (The piece of paper would later be found in his briefcase, ripped into scraps.) The last item said, "I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport...
Despite the play's difficulty, several cast members in this Quincy House production took full advantage of their moment in the spotlight. Bob Kim, in the role of the judicial King, does a splendid job, projecting a magnificent aura of power. As the mother of the wayward Count, Natasha Kruger similarly carries herself strongly and proudly, while adding a classy feminine quality to her role. The self-proclaimed fool and knave of the show, Alden Stock '96, provides hilarious comic turns throughout the play--whether he is performing gymnastic stunts or swing-dancing with members of the audience...
These new professors were plucked from Northwestern University, Columbia University and the University of California at San Diego, respectively. Jencks, who has shared the spotlight with Wilson as one of the nation's most influential sociologists, has written extensively about socio-economic inequality and the homeless. Newman has done ground-breaking research on the urban working poor, and Borjas is an expert on the relationship between immigration and labor markets...
Suddenly in the spotlight, Alexander's challenge was simply to be genuine. His gimmicky campaign of plaid shirts and long walks has suffered not just from want of attention but also from an abundance of contradictions. He is yet another former Nixon staff member posing as an outsider, a man who boasts about his plans to abolish the Education Department he once headed, a man who rails against insiders but seems to have profited handsomely from being one; a man who complains of mudslinging but was the first in the field to use a negative ad, against Pete Wilson last...