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Even a dim understanding of political posturing reveals that Bush was intent on uncompromising unilateralism. To call him a “dove in hawk’s clothing” is a puerile epithet whose sloppiness would make even the most avid of Bush’s spin-doctors cringe. Bush went to the U.N. as a token gesture to garner political points by convincing the naive that he was intent on multilateralism. It was a ploy made all the more transparent by Bush’s obstinacy to granting even trifling concessions over inspection timing and oil-rights...
Glickman said the media continue to seek KSG professors interpretations to offset government spin...
There's nothing like a sleeper hit to sound a wake-up call all over Hollywood. Barbershop, a modestly priced comedy featuring the no-holds-barred talk that guys have while waiting for a haircut--which made about $75 million at the box office--has already spawned several spin-offs. And since women's haircuts cost much more than men's, it makes a sort of sense that three of the spin-offs feature women. The producers behind the original are in talks with QUEEN LATIFAH, left, to star in Beauty Shop. In May comedian MO'NIQUE, upper right, will...
...could be stigmatized as an epidemiological hot zone. Last Friday, Hong Kong's Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food Yeoh Eng-kiong pleaded for calm. "Words like 'Hong Kong has been quarantined' are detrimental to Hong Kong," he said. But if the disease keeps spreading, figuring out the proper spin on an outbreak should be the least of anyone's concerns...
...quadrants between the axes of evil, it becomes harder to cast Saddam as Stalin incarnate, harder to lambast “old Europe” as terrorist-sympathizing dilettantes, and harder to see ourselves as the paragons of good. So rather than risking the ambiguities of nuance, our government spin-doctors new material, upgrading the “war on terror” to a “crusade against evil,” making it impossible to confuse the victims and martyrs...