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...growing liability. A former U.S. Representative from California who resigned from Congress during a junk-bond scandal in 1989, Coelho is under investigation for alleged corruption as head of the American mission at the 1998 World Exposition in Portugal. (That made him refuse to go on TV to spin for Gore, something a good campaign boss must do.) Coelho also dispensed some lousy tactical advice, encouraging Gore to insert himself into the Elian Gonzalez imbroglio, a move widely ridiculed as the worst sort of pandering...
...thing that most Korea watchers felt they knew for sure, it was that the comfort of a South Korean President was not on the list of things Kim Jong Il cared about. But that was the old Kim. The new one is a masterwork of political repositioning. Part spin, part smarts and all opportunism, Kim 2.0 is an impressive creation, an example of a 180-degree image shift that was achieved in near Internet time--hardly something anyone would have expected from Pyongyang, where cell phones are as uncommon as Cokes...
...waste management operator--who needs that kind of boring stuff in the new economy? Since then, he has been reconfiguring the company through a flurry of mergers and asset sales, shifting the product flow from water pipes to fat data pipes. After this deal goes through, he will probably spin off the remaining hydro assets to concentrate on whether or not he should green-light Erin Brockovich Deux or make Enrique Iglesias available in MPtrois format...
...some grizzled baseball types who don't believe in miracles say the answer can be found in Martinez's extraordinary fingers--long and slender like those of a pianist. They allow him to grip the ball longer and spin it fiercely, making it sing and dance. From the same arm motion, Pedro can deliver four very different pitches. He has a straight fast ball that approaches 100 m.p.h., a cut fast ball that moves in on left-handed hitters, a curve that suddenly dives for the plate and the game's best change-up, which often has a red-faced...
Confused? Well, there is a germ of reason amidst all this dizzying dealmaking: As a result of the RJR-NGH merger, NGH manages to consolidate any pending lawsuits under the umbrella (and considerable legal expertise) of RJR. Meanwhile, analysts theorize, Philip Morris will move quickly to spin off its tobacco holdings...