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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER He had barely finished one campaign--the Terminator 3 junket--when he began another, his bid to become California's Governor. Cue the sneering. And indeed the recall election began as a 250-candidate, porn-star-and--Gary Coleman circus. But voters warmed to Schwarzenegger's toss-the-bastards theme, and he helped inspire a 20% increase in turnout. In the early hours of Oct. 8, he stood alone as the decisive victor...
...calls by the linesmen, we had a protocol, we had three calls for too many men on the ice—not against us, in the game—that protocol to start the game…It was an absolute circus,” Cahoon said. “An absolute circus...
...That circus included, most notably, two whistles for icing against the team on the penalty kill—when icing is turned off—numerous non-calls on both sides for fouls near the puck and, as Cahoon mentioned, three penalties for too many men on the ice, only one of which had an actual impact on the play around the puck...
...into a “new phase of themes” in his late works. “He was 74 years old, dying from about five different things,” Vendler explained, recalling aloud some of his famous last lines from his poem “Circus Animals’ Desertion”: “…Now that my ladder’s gone,/ I must lie down where all the ladders start/in the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart...
...admissions office openly admits that the sudden drop is a result of April’s change; but they would have us believe that the policy shift somehow made the college admissions circus more relaxed and more easily-navigable for early applicants. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 wasted no time in lauding the new policy’s results as “a return to an era in which people will be much more thoughtful about what they are doing early...