Word: circusing
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After working so hard to prevent a circus, Judge Richard Matsch was not about to preside over a lynching--or risk seeing the biggest case of his career reversed on appeal. So on Wednesday, with prosecutors ready to explain in grisly detail why Timothy McVeigh deserves death, Matsch ordered the jurors to lock away their feelings and remain "free from the influence of passion." He ruled that government evidence designed to stir those emotions--wedding portraits, poetry, the testimony of a boy who missed his mom--would all be inadmissible...
...that they worry about universal access to something called the Internet. This was coming from an administration that had failed to feed its poor or house its veterans. The prospect of the Web in West Virginia and the Usenet in Utah seemed like the classic tactic of bread and circus, only without enough bread to go around...
While a writing career never entered her consideration, an affection for opera singing, nine years of voice training and participation in the theater at Harvard and Radcliffe did lead to some amateur acting as well as an appearance in the first successful summer musical circus in New Jersey...
...campgrounds are in the wilderness, either. Las Vegas' Circus Circus casino has a campground, and Disney World has Fort Wilderness, where if visitors tire of Fantasyland, they can go canoeing and horseback riding. For some people this may be too much of a good thing. Much to the chagrin of folks like the Sutherlands, many campgrounds now have something they never had before: NO VACANCY signs...
...meet Gifford on April 30, had a hidden camera and tape recorder, the better to catch Frank in the act. And they did, although it took two separate encounters--the second, a day later, right after Frank lunched with wife Kathie Lee at the exclusive Le Cirque restaurant. The circus indeed...