Word: circus
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...boasted to a friend that the Veep's operation had a mole inside the Bush campaign. The 28-year-old aide insisted he had been joking, and no evidence has surfaced linking him to either the debate prep material or anything else funneled from Austin. The whole circus is all the more silly because FBI investigators are still not sure a federal crime has been committed. The only one they could come up with--theft from a federally financed activity--is such a stretch that it might not apply: it's hard to argue that the papers and tape...
Every week, college football makes a media circus out of pain and suffering and the lost dreams of youth...
...media scrutiny will keep the children's services office in check.) Gender PAC, a Washington-based group that lobbies for equality for transgendered people, has also helped publicize the case. Transgender activists around the world have contacted the county children's agency in protest. A growing media circus greets each court development. Last week the child's case was stalled while everyone argued for days over whether cameras should be in the courtroom...
...both 1997 and '98, Adelson again gave $100,000 to the Republican National State Election Committee. In 1998, Mirage Resorts kicked in $300,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, followed with $300,000 to the Republicans and $250,000 to the Democrats in 1999. In 1998, Circus Circus gave $285,000 to the same G.O.P. committee. The following year, Park Place Entertainment, the former gaming division of the Hilton Hotels, gave $100,000 to the Democrats and $75,000 to the Republicans, and MGM Grand gave $150,000 each to the Democrats and Republicans...
...What makes the whole circus all the more silly is that FBI investigators are still not sure a federal crime has been committed. The only plausible one they could come up with - theft from a federally financed activity - is so much of a stretch that it might not apply: It's hard to argue, after all, that the papers and tape are valuable enough to trigger the statute, which requires that the stolen material be worth more than...