1.   And so it was that a hearing intended to assess welfare programs dissolved into a raucous New York-style political circus.

2.   As the wealthiest, most populous state, California is in the center ring of the American political circus.

3.   But he, the Senate, and the nation will be ill served if the hearings turn into a political circus.

4.   But I have lost the former and could lose the latter as this political circus continues indefinitely.

5.   On Sunday, Peruvians vote again for president after a campaign that has bordered on a political circus.

6.   This is a political circus whose aim is to endanger the Serbian people until it destroys them completely.

7.   Fujimori has said he has no intention of returning to face allegations against him because he would be subjecting himself to a political circus.

8.   Fujimori denies the accusations and says he would face a political circus rather than a fair trial in Peru.

9.   Neither do we want it to be a political circus.

10.   The top Roman Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land on Wednesday dismissed charges by foreign Christians that Yasser Arafat was turning Christmas festivities in Bethlehem into a political circus.