As many of us devote our careers to transforming our crumbled city into a new beacon of hope, this is also your moment to shine.
This time, the instant verdict (possibly to be amended) is that General Powell, once regarded as a beacon of moderation of this administration, its best-liked and most trusted spokesman abroad, is the loser.
Terry is the one beacon of integrity in this slithering mass of corruption and self-interest.
However, her article was a beacon of hope in this sea of irrationality in which we flounder.
"I am not suggesting in any sense that Mike Bloomberg would be a beacon of democracy during this," he said.
Despite making sharply different remarks about the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, the American and Russian presidents seemed to get on well, especially when Mr Putin helped Mr Bush to drive his 1956 classic Volga car.Mr Bush went on to Georgia, becoming the first American president to visit a place he called "a beacon of liberty for this region and the world".
In 2006, the lighting designer Leni Schwendinger was commissioned by the Parks Department, the Economic Development Corporation and Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn borough president, to design six lighting schemes for the ride, transforming it, in Mr. Markowitz's words at the time, into "a beacon of light for this and future generations".
If even the world's sole superpower which sees itself as a beacon of freedom behaves in this way, what chance is there that other countries will ever be constrained by international law?Other critics, not represented in Mr Evans's volume, have lambasted efforts to hold international trials as selective and unfair.
But there is a shining beacon of hope in this scenario: the other 15 metros.
