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Lynch, who called Denner “a defense attorney who calculated an effort to spin a version of the case,” said she told Denner to stop appearing on television...
...further reduce that knowledge, they will say. Yet the damaging effects of cutting down on tutorials can be minimized by increasing the merit of the tutorials which remain. The history department, for example, eliminated one of its two junior tutorials this year, a class which, in spite of the spin put on it by the senior professors in charge, was nothing more than banal busywork dressed up as vital grounding in the science of research. And I have no doubt that many other departments would benefit from similar addition by subtraction...
...decide just which income groups are going to pay how much of the tab for keeping government services and infrastructure running. Tough decisions, to be sure, but ultimately this is something about which the electorate can make an informed decision rather than trying to see through the spin and obfuscation of the current debate...
...bear another spin of Britney Spears, you're one of the reasons that stations like Radioparadise are beginning to prosper and investors are again flocking to another alternative to the AM/FM dial: satellite radio. After years of unmet promise, online stations, along with satellite offerings like Sirius and XM Satellite Radio, are building audiences even as regular radio struggles through a decade-long slump (time spent listening is down 14% since 1994, according to the ratings firm Arbitron). Critics say industry consolidation has turned AM/FM stations into McRadio: nationally uniform, repetitive and clogged more than ever with ads and promos...
...characters are approaching something like traditional happy endings: Phoebe married, Chandler and Monica becoming parents, Ross and Rachel headed for whatever closure the writers have devised, Joey going west for the Valhalla of spin-off-dom. Still, what a weird route they took. Friends may not have been as artistically great as NBC says, but it may have been more important than the show itself seemed to believe. If, as the headlines keep screaming, the culture war is not over, for half an hour a week over 10 years, we were able to forget it existed. What else are friends...