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U.S. — Vice President Kamala Harris was honored with an honorary degree from America's premier clown college Wednesday for her hard work clowning around the nation's capital. Harris joins a pantheon of great American clowns such as Lori Lightfoot and John Wayne Gacy. "It is an honor to be respected by this great institution of clowning," VP Harris said humbly after donning traditional clown garb and squeezing a bugle horn. "Who doesn't love a clown? Am I right? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Ohhhhhh I just LOOOVE clowns! HA HA HA HA HA!" Dean Sippy the Cosmic...

Ringling abounds with spirited, spooky discoveries Generations of Ringling School of Art and Design students claim to have seen a ghostly figure in Keating Center, and now they're taking the eerie story national ROBERTA C. NELSON Herald Staff Writer SARASOTA - When Christina Siciliano was a student at Ringling School of Art and Design nine years ago, she turned off the lights in her dorm room every night and said, "Good night, Mary." Siciliano didn't have a roommate. She lived alone in Room 12 in Keating Center. Mary was the ghost students have talked about for years, and many believe...

  Nation & World 9/15/03Wild-Card CourtThe last best hope for Gray Davis may reside with a panel of unpredictable judgesBy Angie CannonEveryone seems to take for granted that Californians will decide October 7 whether Democratic Gov. Gray Davis stays or goes. But much to the chagrin of an army of would-be Davis topplers, the fate of the recall election now rests with a maverick, liberal federal appeals court, once derided as a "court jester" by the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial page. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week is set to consider a challenge by the...