Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This avoidance of the spotlight is most obvious on race relations, an issue that has caught up many an administrator in the center of campus controversy. Jewett did little when the issue was on his plate, and many believe that his inaction was part of the reason that Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III was appointed as Harvard's race czar in September...
Graduates also say that the events of 1969convinced them of the power of protests to pushconcerns into the public spotlight...
...this year of Normandy's remembrance, the extreme right -- always lurking in the wings of European politics -- is inching toward the spotlight. Parties of the far right collected upwards of 10% of the vote in some elections in France, Italy and Germany. Five members of the far right National Alliance hold seats in the new Italian government. Skinheads decked with swastikas continue to terrorize foreigners in Germany, Italy, Britain and Spain. While the number of neo-Nazis and neofascists in Western Europe remains minuscule, ugly pictures of straight-arm salutes, street hooligans and racial hatred are haunting reminders that...
...since Vassar days says Jackie had no idea how to answer questions and was scared of the press: "People thought she was stuck-up, but she just didn't have much confidence." Said author Manchester (The Death of a President): "After Kennedy died, she was exposed to a pitiless spotlight, and she did not know how to handle it." But another observer from White House days claims that Kennedy himself engineered the Garboesque stance: he knew that if she ever began talking, she would reveal how little she knew or cared about politics or public issues...
...spotlight was on Japanese Foreign Minister Tsutomu Hata amid speculation that he would inherit the post vacated by former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, who resigned two weeks ago. Like Hosokawa, Hata has been an outspoken critic of Japan's scandal-plagued political system; he also faces the challenge of holding together the fragile seven-party coalition that brought Hosokawa to power. Parliament is expected to vote on a new Prime Minister this week...