If you love cities, this is a week to rejoice. Now that the stadium planned for New York's West Side is dead, no one can fantasize anymore about the Olympics coming to New York. If the city had gotten the 2012 Games, its leaders would have basked for seven years in Olympic photo opportunities, and mayors across America would have watched enviously. They would have succumbed further to what I think of as .
Alas, even the in-house newsletter of the capital establishment, The Washington Post, seems to recognize the absurd, circuslike aspect of this week's nomination hearings for Judge John Roberts. The Post wisely assigned writer Dana Milbank to serve as its eyes and ears inside the hearing room and his unflinchingly honest pieces made entertaining reading. Rather than go blithely along with the solemn charade, Milbank covered it as an entertainment event, wryly skewering the play-acting and pomposity. Milbank noted, for instance, some "historic firsts" during the opening hearing, including the fact that "Sen Charles E. Schumer, D- N.Y., made 49 first-person references in a 10-minute opening statement that was, ostensibly, not about himself." We doubt that's a record, for Schumer or any oth...
LONG BEACH - As a child Sharaud Moore and his friends would play a backyard version of an athletic contest on the then-popular television show "American Gladiators. The game show, which had contestants competing in physical tasks with bulky "gladiators," featured as one of the events "Joust," in which stick-wielding combatants would try to force each other off a platform.
ROME - Thousands of young people flooded an ancient Roman field Saturday for an all-night prayer vigil honoring Pope John Paul II on the eve of his beatification, remembering his teachings, travels and his own suffering. Pilgrims waving flags from Poland, Spain, Germany and Brazil filled the Circus Maximus, which twinkled with the light of thousands of candles as choirs from John Paul's native Poland, the Philippines and Italy sang. They listened as a French nun who suffered from Parkinson's recounted how she was cured after praying to John Paul, who also battled the same disease.
AMBASSADOR GOEs GAGA The U.S. ambassador to Italy is all aflutter over the expected arrival of Lady Gaga , who accepted his invitation to join a gay- pride parade Saturday in Rome's Circus Maximus, where ancient Romans watched chariot races and gladiators fight to the death.
ROME - Thousands of young people flooded an ancient Roman field Saturday for an all-night prayer vigil honoring Pope John Paul II on the eve of his beatification, remembering his teachings, travels and his own suffering. Pilgrims waving flags from Poland, Spain Germany and Brazil filled the Circus Maximus, which twinkled with the light of thousands of candles as choirs from John Paul's native Poland, the Philippines and Italy sang. They listened as a French nun who suffered from Parkinson's recounted how she was cured after praying to John Paul, who also battled the same disease.
The turkey's been digested, the relatives are still in town, and you're looking for something fun to do over the weekend that everyone in the family can enjoy. Well, you're in luck this year, the circus is in town. Make that two circuses, both with plenty of performance options throughout the weekend.
ROME (AP) -- Lady Gaga sang a few bars of her song "Born This Way" and demanded the end of discrimination against gays as she proclaimed herself a "child of diversity" at a gay pride rally Saturday night in the ancient Circus Maximus. The star delighted thousands of people at a brief concert in the vast field where the ancient Roman masses would gather for spectacles. Wearing a green wig, she played the piano and sang a few numbers. But she devoted much of her appearance after an annual European gay pride parade to denounce intolerance and discrimination against gays and transgender people. Among the places she cited was the Middle East, Poland, Russia and Lithuania.
Lady Gaga sang a few bars of her smash hit "Born This Way" and demanded the end of discrimination against gays as she proclaimed herself a "child of diversity" at a gay pride rally Saturday night in Rome's ancient Circus Maximus. The star, whose "Born This Way" album recently topped 1 million sales in a week, delighted tens of thousands of people at a brief concert in the vast field where the ancient Roman masses would gather for spectacles.
ROME | Thousands of young people flooded an ancient Roman field Saturday for an all-night prayer vigil honoring Pope John Paul II on the eve of his beatification, remembering his teachings, travels and his own suffering. // Pilgrims waving flags from Poland, Spain, Germany and Brazil filled Rome's Circus Maximus, which twinkled with the light of thousands of candles as choirs from John Paul's native Poland, the Philippines and Italy sang. - The Associated Press
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