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...Florida recount was five weeks of spin overload. The sheer volume of the stuff (in the sense of both quantity and noise level) was impressive enough. Consider as well how effortlessly the spin machine handled all the hairpin turns. Every amazing development and reversal in the drama was converted within minutes into two or three talking points for each side to repeat without mercy...
While the College ad board has its critics and, according to Lewis, is constantly considering ways to improve, perhaps it is the sheer number of cases that makes change happen slowly, if at all. After all, administering discipline for more than 6,000 students is a weighty and daunting task...
Finally the fallacy of American democracy has been unmasked, revealing to the whole world that the government "of the people, by the people and for the people" is sheer baloney. In the next U.S. presidential election, the world community should send observers to make sure the whole process takes place without any irregularities. Brazil should cash in and export thousands of its electronic ballot boxes to teach Uncle Sam how to count votes. MARCILIO AFONSO Recife, Brazil...
...chiefs who would hold up environment-protection plans, and omit funds in his budgets for projects drawn up by Clinton, leaving them to die on the vine. Unsympathetic officials could slow down the cleanup of PCBs from the Hudson and the implementation of the Kyoto climate-change treaty by sheer foot dragging...
They had something special developing in the land of Starbucks, but the loss of homegrown superstar Rodriguez through Hicks' sheer absurdity renders his efforts null and void...