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...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...
...against just one: Zacaria Moussaoui, who was picked up at a flight school before Sept. 11 and isn't likely to have been let in on much even if he was martyrdom-bound. Oh, there's one other guy - but he's an American. John Walker is a media circus waiting to happen, and for all the hemming and hawing from Ari Fleischer, sooner or later the White House is going have to figure out what to do with...
Charles Krauthammer fears that a trial of al-Qaeda terrorists in a U.S. or world court would be a "legal circus" [ESSAY, Nov. 26]. Despite that risk, an open trial carries greater moral weight than a military tribunal, which is still associated with injustice and dictatorship in too much of the world. If Americans really want to persuade other countries to embrace our values of freedom and respect for human rights, we should welcome this opportunity to showcase how our democratic society puts into practice its belief in inalienable rights. PAM VINCENT Houston...
...think Crunch Time became Loss Control,” Fox says. He’s not feeling the pressure of job-search crunch time yet so the horizon seems clear for loss of control. But that risk will be managed when he comes to it. There is always the circus...