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Ahmadinejad is a skilled, if slippery, debater. In his press conferences, he has shown himself to be a natural politician, gifted in the art of spin and misdirection. Our meeting took place last Saturday in a villa on the outskirts of Havana, where he was attending the confab for leaders of nonaligned nations, a gathering that included other irritants to the West such as Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe...
...Jackal - to Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein's meticulous, devastating The Prisoner: Or, How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, the story of an Iraqi journalist detained for nine months in Abu Ghraib, and falsely accused of a plot to assassinate the British P.M. In this company, a spin of speculative future history like Death of a President played like light, if cautionary, late-summer beach reading...
King Abdullah II of Jordan has few opportunities to relax. Speaking with TIME at Basman Palace last week, he spent a moment describing how he likes to take Queen Rania out for a spin on his Harley-Davidson and hopes to get the family, including two sons and two daughters, away for a picnic soon. Then it was on to business. While much of the interview focused on his uncharacteristically dark outlook on the Middle East--Abdullah, 44, is usually known for his optimism--he also revealed the outlines of a new Arab peace initiative, dubbed Beirut Plus (a reference...
Striding past ceremonial Circassian guards into a sitting room at Basman Palace, King Abdullah II is looking fresh and energetic, as if he has just come from another spin around town on his treasured Harley-Davidson. But his natural ebullience masked an uncharacteristic inner gloom that deepened this summer when the Middle East was plunged into yet another conflict with the Israeli-Hizballah war in Lebanon...
...central scroll wheel has a "free spin" mode, so that you can blaze through hundred-page Excel spreadsheets or Word documents, accelerating and decelerating until you get where you want to be. The scroll wheel actually engages and disengages the free spin depending on what application you're in, and what you're doing. If you are inching through a news story, you get the familiar bump-by-bump ratchet action, but if you land on your friend's mile-long blog and start scrolling, the ratchet bumps go away and the wheel's spin becomes Lance Armstrong smooth...