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DIED. REGGIE MONTGOMERY, 54, stage actor who won critical praise for his performance in the 1986 play The Colored Museum (later televised on PBS) and was the first black clown to perform with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus; of undisclosed causes; in New York City...
...fixed? Yes. Is it odd that 90 percent of Harvard students graduate with honors? Yes, maybe giving automatic “honors” status to all thesis writers obscures the playing field. But does any of this constitute mass grade inflation that is deserving of a mini-media circus? Definitely...
...controversy with the Afro-American Studies department snowballed into a media circus, the public eye focused on Summers...
...Going On and Off, which won last year's Turner Prize. The Palais de Tokyo's curators seem intent on recreating the buzz that surrounded British conceptualism of the 1990s. But as last year's Turner awards so amply demonstrated, today's British scene has degenerated into a media circus. Conceptual art has always been about ideas. For it to be interesting, though, the ideas have to be new. Tired ironic commentaries on consumer society are not good enough. For all the post-postmodern posturing, the center is really just an echo of artistic movements spawned in other cities decades...
...death of French super-giant slalom champion R?gine Cavagnoud after a practice-run collision and a crash that left 22-year-old Swiss racer Silvano Beltrametti a paraplegic - have highlighted the dangers of ski racing and cast a somber pall over what these athletes refer to as the "white circus...