And in many ways, he was the leading light of a generation of American diplomats who came of age in Vietnam.
If Best Mate confirmed his status as jumping's superstar, Persian Punch made a good case for ousting some of his more fashionable and younger rivals as the leading light of the Flat year.
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Andrea Leadsom is the leading light of the Fresh Start Group of 100 plus Tory backbenchers, who have been beavering away for quite a while now, working out what this country should seek from a renegotiation of British EU membership.
Elspeth Insch, the headmistress, is a leading light in the campaign to save the grammar schools.
Even before he was prime minister he pulled the Conservative Party out of the European People's Party grouping in the EU, incurring the displeasure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the EPP's leading light, and thereby excluding himself from the most powerful caucus that shapes decisions ahead of European summits.
Moreover, they add, Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential candidate and a leading light of the tea-party movement, who heads the campaign outfit in question, often resorts to martial slogans.
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Perhaps the most articulate definition is offered by Clay Shirky, a venture capitalist and leading light in the peer-to-peer community.
They enlisted the help of several scientists, including Eric Lander of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who went on to become a leading light in the effort to sequence the human genome.
And, even in the hours leading up to the equinox, more light snow has been settling in north-east England and eastern Scotland, adding to large amounts of up to 10cm which hit the regions on Tuesday.
The needed constitutional changes will require a two-thirds majority in Congress, and the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution whose leading light is Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, mayor of the capital and son of the former president dislikes the whole idea.
More significant was last month's meeting in Geneva between Hassan Turabi, the regime's ideologue, and Sadiq el Mahdi, an ousted prime minister who is now the opposition's leading light.
The BBC has spoken to fighters as well as members of the National Transitional Council (NTC) in Misrata, who have shed more light on the events leading up to the capture of Col Gaddafi.
Born in New York's Staten Island, Cropsey - a leading light of the 'Hudson River School' of landscape painting - showed regularly at the Royal Academy in the 1850s.
John Tomaney, a lecturer at Newcastle University who is a leading light in the North-Eastern Constitutional Convention, which is campaigning for an elected assembly for the region, sees strong parallels between the North-East and Scotland.
The works are displayed in a series of glass-fronted corridors leading off the original house, and reflected light from the sea fills the exhibition space.
U.S. economic data due for release Friday is light and includes the leading economic indicators index.
The Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg was present as were four members of the Hacked Off campaign group whose leading light, Hugh Grant, describes as "a few dandruffy professors...a slightly insane chess champion ex-Lib Dem MP and a couple of threadbare lawyers".
Health Minister Steve Ladyman looks the most vulnerable of the Labour MPs with a majority of 1, 792, but he could be helped by the fact that UKIP are targeting the Thanet South seat and their leading light Nigel Farage could take away Tory support.
Cloud is the IBF champion while fellow American Dawson - who does not hold one of the four recognised world light-heavyweight belts - is generally accepted as the leading operator at 175lbs and holds the unofficial Ring Magazine crown.
The public announcements, dignitary comments, and festivities leading up to and including the sequenced lighting of the rope light strands by the eight Sault Ste.
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In Lushan, Ma Yiqiang, a local Communist Party publicity official, said the standard of design for public buildings had risen since the 2008 quake, leading to cracks and light damage but leaving them standing.
There's no sign of the OBR rethinking its reckoning in light of the Scottish government's substantially more optimistic assumptions leading to higher revenue forecasts.
If you are one of those who deplores the atmosphere as hyperpartisan, Newt was a leading light in bringing that to Washington.
UNESCO, as a member of the advisory body of this project that is funded by the European Commission and as a leading United Nations agency in bioethics, will host this meeting that comes in the light of the international reflection on the ethical principles that should guide science and technology development.
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And, in fact, there has been some very intelligent writing on how the draconian SOPA legislation will impact the Open Educational Resource movement of which MITx is a leading light.
Mr Robson, a leading air engineering mechanic, was on the flight deck manning light machine guns when three bombs struck the ship.
Their leading light is Douglas Carswell who made his name in the last parliament calling for the resignation of Speaker Martin, when few other MPs dared put their head over the parapet.
Yet Kuniko Inoguchi, a minister under Mr Koizumi and a leading light in his non-faction, casts doubt on the idea.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told a radio network Thursday that "light must be shed" on events leading up to the shootings by Merah.
The 36-year-old, who beat Chris Eubank to win the WBO super-middleweight title in 1997, has been Welsh boxing's leading light for so long.
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