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...Capitol Hill and beyond. It was founded in 1982 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and a cadre of journalists who wanted to put more “morality” into the Washington press. Before Bill O’Reilly’s “no spin zone,” they were hatching theories about the dominance of the liberal media—and plotting to topple, or at least challenge...
Fahrenheit’s two hours will make one’s head spin—but is it all liberal spin, as the pastel-clad passerby at the New York theater would have us believe? Moore himself has said that he sees his film as more op-ed than documentary. But in ways that a piece of opinion writing cannot, this movie takes traditional liberal complaints and makes them visceral and stunning. He makes us laugh, but mostly he makes us squirm...
...kids from Watts and Wichita and elsewhere in the States who will be doing the enforcing. But the move may help to throw Iraqi terrorists off balance who might have been planning a spectacular attack for June 30th. Of course, administration officials are putting their best spin on it, saying "it shows this government is ready... . What this demonstrates is that they were fully ready to take control." Maybe. But it seems to more accurately reflect the deteriorating security situation...
...makes you incredibly powerful when you race - that's the third dimension of competition." Partly, she says, it's about rediscovering her youth, when performing was based on intuition, instinct and feeling. Experience eats away at those forces, the confidence goes, bad thoughts fill the gap, and "you completely spin yourself out." Rebuilding that instinct, and making it congruent with your life, restores a sense of direction and awareness of self and others. When she reaches "that beautiful spot" in a race when intuition takes over, Kendall knows she's unbeatable. In the fleet at Athens, she'll be racing...
...cricket. An obsessive fan of the game?Australians call him a "cricket tragic"?it surprised few to hear that Howard holds an opinion on an issue that is the talk of the international cricket fraternity: Is Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan, a slow bowler with the uncommon ability to spin a ball like a top, a "chucker"? Howard didn't hesitate: "Yes," he told supporters at a political function in rural Australia last month. Howard had, in effect, labeled the most successful bowler in cricket history and an icon in cricket-mad Sri Lanka, a cheat...