"Whether we won or lost, he was always one of the brightest stars on the team, " he said.

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As the glamorous wife of Joe Philips, one of the brightest stars of the 1936 Indian Olympic gold-medal team, she has experienced the highs the sport offers.

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He described the partnership of Alonso, one of the sport's brightest young stars, and the highly experienced Fisichella as being "perfectly balanced".

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In the late '70s and early '80s, Coleman was one of television's brightest stars, the personality around which NBC's "Strokes" -- the story of two inner-city children who are taken in by a wealthy businessman, his daughter and their housekeeper -- was built.

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