Word: horn
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...When the horn sounded, all that Harvard’s seniors could do was hug and cry. For the eight of them who lived and ate and slept and watched TV and studied together for four years, that...
Ringling has long been the crown jewel of Feld Entertainment. The company, based in Vienna, Va., also produces Disney on Ice and will soon launch a Winnie-the-Pooh live-entertainment show. Until entertainer Roy Horn's near fatal encounter with a tiger last year, the company also had a steady money-maker as producer of Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas. The privately held company doesn't disclose its finances, but Feld indicated that the circus business lately has been far from spectacular. Ringling revenues are up 13% over the past five years and 36% over the past decade. According...
...been a quieter, more bucolic affair, albeit imbued with what Daeschner, 34, a Colorado-born U.K. resident, describes as the "secular trinity that made Britain what it is today: Land, Booze and Patriotism." In truth, not all of the time-ingrained rituals in True Brits really count as sport: horn dancing (a kind of line dance for aristocrats toting 1,000-year-old reindeer horns), Pope burning (in effigy, of course) and the Darkie Day revels in Padstow, Cornwall (think merry English minstrels in blackface) all defy the march of time and political correctness in the name of tradition - with...
Around the Horn...
...Chinese market until December. PSA Peugeot Citroen, the French maker of the successful Citroen sedan in central China, faces a similar problem. A local producer called Shanghai Maple introduced a model that looks startlingly like the Citroen: same body, same interior, even the same way of tooting the horn from the turn-signal toggle. "It's exactly the same as the Citroen except half the price," boasts Liu Xiaojun, a Shanghai Maple dealer in Beijing. Citroen suspects that Shanghai Maple poached its suppliers and says it is considering legal action...