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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...
...paid for with federal dollars. When I ask a group of 22 fire fighters in Casper whether they feel insulted by suggestions that they should get less homeland-security money, they all nod in agreement. "No one can say Casper can't be a terrorist target," says fire fighter Roy Buck. Taking the point further, Peter Beering, terrorism-preparedness chief in Indianapolis, Ind., writes in First to Arrive, a Harvard collection of essays on emergency preparedness, "In an era of satellite television ... attacking a rural target may actually instill more fear by delivering the message that no one is safe...
...part of attending Harvard, a college unmatched in its regional diversity, is representing one’s own home state. As an Alabamian, I’ve caught my share of flak thanks to its clichéd backwardness, Ten Commandments ex-judge Roy Moore and bottom-feeding position out of 49 states (God bless ye, Mississippi) in just about every indicator of statewide health...
...Even the greatest goalies have holes,” Kolarik said. “The kid’s human, just like Patrick Roy is human...
...including several large pension funds--say the large vote against Eisner should have led to his ouster. "Disney needs to do more than say it changed the titles on the doors," says Pat Macht of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, which owns 9.9 million shares of the company. Roy Disney, one of the chief dissident shareholders, believes the Philly split amounted to another Eisner coup: "Knowing Michael as I do, I don't think he had any intention--no matter what the vote...