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...hollow jingoism. With painted plastic cows marching, hula-hooped acrobats flying, human playing-cards dancing, and even a dragon-shaped harp fire-blowing during opening and closing ceremonies, it is no wonder some have called the Games a comedy of the absurd, more akin to a third-rate circus than a gathering of the nations of the world to achieve a higher purpose. Today, instead of Coubertin’s exchange of ideas and culture, athletes backstab mercilessly in the hopes of creating sufficient controversy and getting enough media exposure to merit a lucrative endorsement deal. The concept...
...None of our being together is the political statement,” he says. “We don’t want a political circus wedding...
...Kyle E. Hausmann ’06, Warren undressed while juggling two big knives and an ax during a psychology class presentation. “I was trying to demonstrate John Piaget’s notion of cognitive dissonance,” Warren explains. Fortunately, he was wearing circus pants underneath, and was not arrested for his class presentation. Warren never parts with his favorite prop, which he endearingly calls his “prayer wheel.” He claims he can ride while drinking his coffee, listening to music, and using his cell phone, though this behavior does...
...PRESIDENT DESPERATE TO TURN THE corner after a wretched 2005, last week's circus was the last thing he needed. This has been a season of doubt about the Administration's competence, candor and instinct. In serial scenes of domestic violence, Republicans are attacking their own. An all-Republican House panel concluded last week that Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff made decisions during Hurricane Katrina "late, ineffectively or not at all." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was grilled about Iraq by cranky Republican Senators: "I don't see, Madame Secretary, how things are getting better," said Chuck Hagel of Nebraska...
...something I do a lot.” “The class, as I see it, is a way to discover one’s own creative process,” says Max A. Binder ’09, who was born and raised in the Big Apple Circus (see “Nonsense Upon Stilts” in this week’s FM). “The class allows us to express ourselves in any way possible, with no limits on our creativity.” For their first assignment, students enrolled in “Loitering?...