Word: circuitousness
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...Washington's plush Mayflower Hotel. The 40 or so established rhetoricians spoke mainly for the fun of it, and perhaps to pick up an extra engagement or two. But the stakes were higher for the competing amateurs, who were hoping to break into the $2 billion-a-year lecture circuit. "This is the marketplace of the profession," explains I.P.A. Director General Dan Tyler Moore. "It has two effects on the speaker: if he's good, he gets bookings, and if he's bad, he is ruined...
...President now has 85 vacancies to fill on the federal bench and 25 nominations waiting in the Senate for confirmation. Perhaps the two most prominent choices are James Buckley, 62, currently president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, for the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals and Berkeley Law Professor John Noonan, 59, for the Ninth Circuit in the Far West. The Administration has set up an elaborate process to examine candidates. Each receives a ten-page questionnaire. A daylong interview follows at the Justice Department. Further hurdles include review by a special Administration committee that meets each Thursday...
...also buying playthings. Motsepe owns the Mamelodi Sundowns, one of South Africa's most successful soccer teams. Sexwale, who bought the Oude Kelder winery outside Cape Town in 2002, sponsors the national soccer league and is financing a South African entry on the A1 Grand Prix circuit. Later this year, he will appear in a South African version of The Apprentice, in the Donald Trump role...
Comedy aficionados flocked to the performances of Eugene Mirman and Brendon Small, who both attained critical acclaim far beyond Cambridge. Mirman later embarked on the national comedy club circuit, while Small created a Cartoon Network television series called “Home Movies...
Budd returned home to South Africa, where her parents were in the process of separating. She announced she was giving up international competition, but soon changed her mind and in December returned to the European circuit. Some old foes were waiting. In the midst of a February cross-country race in Birkenhead, England, two antiapartheid demonstrators rushed into her path, forcing her to drop out. A month later she won the world cross-country championship in Lisbon by a stunning 23 sec. but raced erratically after that...