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...only speaker who was able to pull off what the Dems were aiming for with any success. Deftly modulating his style from high to low, common-sense talk to vaulted preaching, big-picture issues to personal journey, Obama knew how to avoid being another caged animal in a superficial circus: He was the circus, jumping from topic to topic and mood to mood so swiftly that the audience had no choice but to come along for the ride. This was unabashed politics, genuine and forceful, and the contrast with the night’s other speakers was impossible to ignore...
...announce they have solved the case. The people who really did it have friends at the top." Two weeks after Klebnikov was gunned down near his office, the investigation is making no apparent progress, and Forbes Russia wants to move on. "We are trying to stop the media circus," says the magazine's publisher, Leonid Bershidsky. The next issue of the business magazine - the Russian edition of U.S.-based Forbes, which Klebnikov launched just three months ago - is set to appear on time next week, but will carry little or no coverage of the affair, Bershidsky says...
...Park and getting dressed for a newspaper job is not the person you are when you’re on holiday, pushing through queues and wax museums and hustling to get to the play on time, map flapping in the wind like a cape as you barrel down Picadilly Circus...
...trial, which is expected to last six months, has attracted plenty of press attention but surprisingly little O.J.-style circus atmosphere. Not only has Judge Alfred Delucchi placed a strict gag order on all participants, but the trial is taking place in Redwood City, Calif.--a town of Silicon Valley commuters with little interest in a murder case from almost 100 miles away. One edition of the local paper last week gave the Peterson trial less play than a story about a stray cat that had tied up traffic on Route...
...deaf to international criticism. Indeed, they have ensured that Burmese state television devotes countless hours to covering the triumph of the convention. Many households have simply switched off their TVs. Faced with falling real incomes and daily power cuts, they have more immediate concerns than this deeply cynical political circus...