Word: limelight
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...treating at Summers’ house; they wanted Summers to see the faces of those individuals most affected by the University’s insensitivity—the children. By shining a spotlight on the issue, the janitors and SLAM succeeded in keeping their views and campaign in the limelight. As for the actual requests of SLAM, Harvard’s decision to deny paternity/maternity leave and sick leave to janitors is rather cruel. It is a harsh blow to families and their ability to function healthily, and granting leaves to Harvard custodians would come at a small price...
...very impressed with your report on Asia's heroes [Oct. 10]. Sania Mirza and South Korean soccer star Park Ji Sung have boosted the image of Asian athletes to new heights. Asia has always had great sports stars, but until now, very few managed to steal the limelight from Europe's important athletes. All Asia now identifies the British football club of Manchester United with Park?no mean achievement. And the Indian belle Mirza has taken the tennis world by storm. Subhobrata Basu Kolkata, India...
Underground activities inevitably change character when thrust into the limelight. Comedy Central made remote-controlled fighting robots famous with its show Battlebots, and in doing so contributed to the rapid burnout of the sport. Snowboarders lost their counterculture mystique, and their boards are more plastered with corporate logos than your average NASCAR racer. And baseketball? Don’t even get us started. Beirut is facing the same fate. Lebanon is being slowly Westernized despite continuing political strife, and it’s character is gradually changing under the weight of French and American corporate interests. Stores from Starbucks...
...impossible to calculate a cumulative GPA for students spending part of their time under each system. Fortunately, fears that grade deflation place students’ futures at risk, in terms of graduate school admissions and job hunting, are largely unfounded, because Harvard’s spot in the limelight would make certain that any dramatic grading change, like the cap of A-grades at Princeton, would be widely publicized. With this in mind, students and educators may find that a dramatic attack on the perennial problem of grade inflation is well worth the risk...
...dirt and mystery start with Miss Dee Meaner, a spoiled has-been child star who will stoop to anything to get back into the limelight. Cookies go missing; Miss Dee starts hanging out with Indy Sykes, a suspicious dictator-look-alike; the ship gets hijacked—possibly by a great white shark—and a Private Eye gets on the job to discover what all the chaos is about...