Word: circus
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...brick wall repeatedly). In between possessions he retreats to the sideline for shots of Vicodin, Lidocaine, and encouragement to do it all over again. “Off-season” is a myth. “Injured reserve” is for cowards. The athletes contribute to the circus of blue-collar combat 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. But the consequences of an NFL career are extreme and often unknown to the fans: the average veteran at any position dies before he turns 55, the age at which he can finally begin to draw full pension...
...changed since Madeleine vanished last May. Back then, parents worldwide could identify with them. But three months into the unsuccessful investigation, as the McCanns kept up their high-profile media blitz, what started as a distraught couple's simple pleas to find their child morphed into a macabre media circus. Public perception was further changed when they became suspects...
...It’s not just a race. You just row down the river, and there are so many people on every bridge, on the river banks, just shouting at you, there are bands playing at Harvard…It’s like rowing through a circus.” —Staff writer Courtney D. Skinner can be reached at cskinner@fas.harvard.edu...
...conspicuous lack of Western Europeans or Americans - strange for a title bout involving the biggest name heavyweight American fighter left. The only noticeable foreigners were those attached to the event itself, the pint-sized Latin fighters on the undercard and the backslapping members of the sport's professional traveling circus...
...shows precisely the opposite ratio of agreement to disagreement. Education experts seem to concur on almost nothing. Research in the field is so politicized and contradictory that you can find almost any study to support your view. If economics is a 99-1 science, education is a 1-99 circus. (See pictures of a public boarding school...