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At least this will put the plight of many families up and down the country in the limelight and these children might finally get the help they need.

Francis – himself the child and grandchild of Italian immigrants to Argentina – has put the plight of migrants at the centre of his papacy.

The shooting of 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai a year ago, and her subsequent nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize, put the plight of Pakistani girls back in the spotlight.

That struggle, with its David-vs.-Goliath overtones and its romantic images of a dwindling cadre of courageous men engaged in an epic fight for their heritage, has inspired not only Mr. Matthiessen's book and its adaptation by the playwright Joe Pintauro, but a Billy Joel song, "Alexa," that put the plight of East End baymen in the national spotlight.

In recent years the assassination of two high-profile Christian politicians also put the plight of this minority in the spotlight.

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But it puts the plight of thousands of other illegal migrants in peril.

In their eyes, she comes off as a naïve liberal who puts the plight of foreigners over the nation's security.

In 26 presidential debates last year, the issues at the heart of the campaign were overwhelmingly overlooked — there were no questions about poverty in nine Democratic primary debates — so putting the plight of the working poor on the national agenda will not be easy.

(And possibly-post-posthumous thanks also to Rudy for putting the plight of both zombies and people with two first names in the public eye).

But Keith Van Horn put the Nets' plight in perspective moments after Michael Dickerson's fadeaway jumper on Thursday night gave Vancouver a 108-106 victory and sent the Nets (17-26) theireir second straight defeat at the hands of a buzzer-beating shot.