Word: ring
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...most important part of what I do," says Larible. "We have fun together." TIME.com talked to the seventh-generation circus performer about life in the circus, his unique approach to clowning, Coulrophobia (fear of clowns), and what he'd do if he got Osama bin Laden in the ring...
...like to make the audience part of your act. And when you get the people out into the ring they seem to be transformed. They lose all their inhibitions. How do you explain that...
...themselves and play around that. By now most people have seen me perform and they know that I'm not going to pick on them or ridicule them. It's not about me being smart and them being stupid. It's about having fun together there in the ring, and that's very important. The people trust me, that we're going to have fun together and that's a great feeling...
...shows us real people facing the dilemmas of conscience and the realities of politics that ring very true to those of us who have been there. (Though not even in President Clinton's White House did that many hip-looking young people wander around aimlessly in the West Wing!) Maybe our entertainment is doing what journalism often fails to do: give us positive stories about folks who try hard to get it right and who serve us a lot better than conventional wisdom would have it. If so, maybe the audience is saying we are hoping for better from both...
UNITED STATES Internet Arrests Police operations in the U.S. and Europe broke up two major Internet pornography rings. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the success of Operation Candyman, which resulted in charges of trading graphic sexual images of children against 86 people, including a police officer, a Catholic priest and a school bus driver. German police uncovered a worldwide Internet pedophile ring, which resulted in arrests of 12 men in 10 countries...