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...Government spin doctors rushed Monday to highlight the achievements of the program that caused the mistaken downing of the missionaries' plane. U.S. electronic intelligence-gathering planes patrol Latin America's airspace, feeding information on suspicious planes to local air forces, who are supposed to intercept the plane and follow a series of established procedures for establishing its identity, and then shoot it down if it fails to comply with directives to submit to a search...
...Despite last week's show of eco-friendliness, Rove's biggest image failure is the environment. The White House complains that some positive decisions have been underplayed by the press. But such spin doesn't approach Rove's usual gold standard. Why didn't the master strategist see this coming? He knew Republicans scored badly on education, and he hatched an effective plan to fix the problem. But when it came to being green, he was as blind as Bush...
...Judgment Day from the sheer panic that market volatility has created in the minds of business as well as in the local and national media. Seattle hasn't been shaken as much by the earthquake and Boeing's decision to relocate its headquarters as by the inane spin the media are putting on the market's downturn. Instead, the media should be reporting on the intricacies and complexities that truly make for stability in business. ELIZABETH HARRIS Seattle...
...loved that book, for all its minor flaws, because it put a new spin on being young and single. When the book first emerged, I was struggling with career questions, trying desperately to find an identity separate from my parents' expectations, and looking around for that rarest of breeds, a good man - all conundrums Bridget faced with considerably more cheer and optimism than...
...China's military: Losers, despite the spin Although they have gotten to pore over the remains of a top-of-the-line U.S. intelligence-gathering platform, their domestic standing may have suffered: After all, they lost a frontline fighter and pilot in a tussle with an unarmed propeller plane, and then appeared to be taken by surprise when that propeller plane landed at one of their airbases. The U.S. statement accepted by the Chinese leadership concludes that the circumstances of the crash remain unclear, in contrast to the Chinese insistence that the U.S. plane rammed their fighter. And with their...