Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton is no grieving golf widow. She believes the game relaxes the President, and has strongly supported expanding his playing time. In fact, his standing in the polls has improved since the green was installed. Might there be some link? No way, laughs Stephanopoulos, noting his usual willingness to spin almost any story favorably toward his boss: "That's too much of a stretch even...
...Four years after a humiliating defeat, the Croats are on the move with a well-trained, well-equipped force of more than 100,000. That is the largest army to fight in Europe in 50 years. There is a risk that the battle for Krajina will spin out of control and engulf the Balkans in a wider war, one that could conceivably draw the republics of the former Yugoslavia, as well as their European and American allies, even further into the conflict. At the same time, however, there is a chance--admittedly a remote chance--that if the Croatian offensive...
...this point I imagine that the advocates of the status quo will strongly object, claiming that such a moral spin on educative processes necessarily subverts academic objectivity. I'll concede immediately that ethnic studies is a necessarily political project--the kind of deep resonances and solidarities that will be built up by such study, both within and between the newly "aware" minorities who learn more about their and other cultures, will be immense. Neo-conservatives argue in reply that such a connection necessarily contaminates the ethnic studies agenda. Advocacy in the class room is not only non-traditional, but unethical...
...Spin doctors in Washington and Tokyo to the contrary, the eleventh-hour deal is more of a truce than a real peace. To be sure, the pact left both sides momentarily ebullient. In Tokyo an official of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry reported after the deal was struck, "They're so happy that they're giddy over there" -- over there meaning in the office of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. And by transatlantic telephone Bill Clinton told U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, "Hey, Mick, congratulations. It sounds like you did great." It may not have been a cigar...
Figuring outNorth Korea's leadershipcould make even a Kremlinologist's head spin, but it looks as though Kim Jong Il -- son of the late PresidentKim Il Sung-- may finally be running the show. Today, on the eve of the anniversary of elder Kim's death, North Korean television showed the younger Kim seated at a dais with other dignitaries as a military band played a patriotic song. "The revolutionary cause pioneered by President Kim Il Sung is now being successfully carried forward under the wise guidance of the great leader, Comrade Kim Jong Il," Yang Hyong Sop, North Korea...