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...Circus of the Stars: The ECAC's heavy firepower was on display Saturday night at Bright: four All-ECAC forward candidates took the ice to start the game. Heck, four Hobey Baker candidates took...
...humor is hip and sometimes bawdy. In a talking blues called Tom's Diner, punks and Valley Girls mingle with waiters and commuters, while a pelvis- wiggling Boitano gooses every woman in sight. Gary Beacom, whose skating blends performance art and circus theatrics, does an uproarious first-act | number in which herky-jerky movements suggest every skater's nightmare: impending spills onto the ice. In the second act Beacom crawls and skitters like Spiderman, then skates from end to end of the arena while encased in black, including a hood that blocks his vision. Valova and Vasiliev join Underhill...
...enforcement officials had an explanation: they feared a repeat of the media circus that surrounded the celebrated Stuart murder case, when police scoured the city for a black assailant only to learn that the real killer was the victim's white husband. Some community leaders insisted that if Harbour had been white and middle class instead of a poor black crack addict, the case would have been widely publicized. What they failed to note was that this crime was probably not about race but about gender. Before their rampage, the suspects, who were black and Hispanic, allegedly declared that they...
Like Thatcher, he rose to the upper political echelons from humble beginnings. The son of a circus trapeze artist and onetime mercenary in Brazil, Major grew up in a two-room apartment in the poor London suburb of Brixton and left school at 16 to help support his parents. He drifted for a while before starting what turned out to be a successful career in banking. During that period, he worked as a laborer and even spent some time on the dole. Major later went to Nigeria to do community work; there he confirmed his deep hatred of racism. Following...
Even as the case against Manuel Noriega was degenerating into a legal three- ring circus, the country he once dominated was mired in a deep slump. Nearly a year after being installed by the U.S. invasion, the government of President Guillermo Endara is stumbling badly in the monumental chore of rebuilding a country devastated by corruption and the financial squeeze applied by the U.S. during the final two years of Noriega's reign. Though Bush Administration officials praise Endara for his good intentions, they fear that he and his government may not be up to the task of converting Panama...