Aside from her known inclination to sidestep the limelight, political observers speculated that Mrs. Rell, 58, underplayed her illness to head off claims that she will be distracted from leading the state by her recovery.
As the top-ranking black in the current administration, Mr. Soaries has had the opportunity to gain statewide exposure, but frequently -- like during last year's Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration and the announcement of an initiative for curbing violence in schools -- he has had to step aside to let the governor bask in the limelight.
Fundraising aside (although never too far out of the limelight), the evening offered the opportunity for the Heights' yummie mummies to make it a date night, for the sexy single seekers to size up the (small "S") situation, for cooing couples to cement their status on one anothers' arms.
Her role The bluestocking who missed the story, or the sober Newsnight science editor who carefully chose not to report what she dismissed as a "gossipy aside" - both views held of Susan Watts, the second BBC journalist thrust into the limelight at the Hutton inquiry.
Aside for a spell designing couture for Oscar de la Renta, he stayed out of the limelight until late last year, when his new role at conceptual Belgian label Maison Margiela was announced.
Beyond the limelight occupied by astronauts, flight directors and former German rocket scientists, the reticent and laconic Mr. Gilruth stood aside when the cheering started, puffing on his pipe.
"If Kim has indeed been set aside – and nobody outside Pyongyang really knows – then whoever has taken power is not seeking the limelight," said John Everard, former UK ambassador to Pyongyang .The visits to factories and military units that Kim frequently conducted have not been taken over by anyone else; they have simply stopped".
Cashew nuts aside, it has few natural resources and, in a region where far bigger conflicts have grabbed the limelight, it is all but forgotten by the outside world.
