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...Henry Clay Memorial Great Compromise Group: This is a group that no one is happy with. It likely emerged in the eleventh hour from as many as eight different groups. All are wary of each other and just looking for any way out. It’s like getting married after forty. Because you understand the pain of treachery from blocking, you should all be kind during rooming. Yet as the political animal you are (see above), you will still Machiavelli your way your way into a triple with the other two non-Asians. The best house...
...monster has been gnawing at the avocados, explains the white suburban couple, Clay and Kelly, to Mr. Hadid, the man with an African accent sitting in their living room. Like their spotless carpet and the shiny flat-screen TV, the couple possess a pristine appearance in “The Pain and the Itch,” which runs until April 4th at the Boston Center for the Arts. But as Clay and Kelly (Joe Lanza and Aimee Doherty) tell their guest (Cedric Lilly) the story of a strange Thanksgiving that begins and ends with the mysterious bites in their...
...circuses know that the show must go on, and they're already taking action. On March 3, Clay testified before the House of Commons' Home Affairs Select Committee about the need to bring embassy workers up to speed on the rules and to rework technicalities. Recently, Clay says, dancers, musicians and tumblers from Zimbabwe who have performed at British festivals every year since 1998 were rejected because embassy staff felt the troupe could not prove it had sufficient funds to support itself in the U.K., despite having contracts and a spotless track record. "How can they [show sufficient funds], with...
...apply for an extension, and by the time he made it back to England, his troupe may have moved on to Italy; now he can apply while working in the U.K. The old system also gave British embassies too much discretion in determining whether performers deserved their visas. Clay remembers a particularly troublesome ordeal last year involving a Chinese trapeze act, in which two boys swinging on distant lines would throw a somersaulting female performer between them. "The embassy gave visas to the two boys because they had previously worked in the West," he recalls, "but they refused the girl...
...host circuses can vouch for a performer's suitability using their own criteria - a way of passing the responsibility for compliance from the Home Office to the employer. "If an artist doesn't behave, then it's going to reflect on us," Clay says. Of course, in an industry where men and women can twirl machetes blindfolded while standing on wild horses, it's a risk they're happy to take...