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...held as the after-party to Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Alice Is Wonderland has been brought forward this year-the hundreds of regulars who fly in from the rest of Australia and the world can't wait, it seems. Expect DJs from the country's mighty Spin F-X sound system and an atmosphere of good-natured debauchery. If you need a place to stay, one option is the Rainbow Connection, tel: (61-8) 8952 6441-central Australia's only gay and lesbian bed-and-breakfast. Book now, because it's going to be a full house...
...press hasn’t gotten around to developing a negative narrative for him. As long as the events can outpace the media’s ability to construct a novelistic story around them, the voters may have some control; but it doesn’t take long to spin a tale...
...walk on the Red Planet, our biggest shift will have to be a philosophical one. Both NASA and the politicians who keep it funded have spent more than 40 years explaining why the agency exists at all, justifying the expense with a lot of talk about science and spin-offs and educational dividends. They're telling the truth when they make those claims, but only some of it. People don't hold parades for a manufacturing spin-off, and they don't muffle their drums and lower their flags when an educational program dies. They do that for astronauts...
...fact the spin from the Clark camp is not so much that Clark is the anti-Dean as that he is Dean 2.0smarter, faster, fewer bugs. He is protected from attacks on patriotism in ways Dean is not, even as Clark attacks President Bush for not preventing the 9/11 attacks and brags that had he been President, he would have caught Osama by now. As a centrist from Arkansas who has probably voted for as many Republicans as Democrats, Clark may be one of the few true swing voters left. Having sharpened his stump speech and softened his style...
That's just the start. Bush's spin doctors have made lists of every event in the coming months that needs to be "managed" in order to make the transition look fluid and orderly. Crucial, they say, will be "setting expectations" for everything from stabilizing the electric grid to securing the annual hajj pilgrimage and opening the nation's airports. It will all build to a climactic moment--the departure of U.S. civilian chief Paul Bremer. Administration officials want to avoid at all costs a chaotic scene that would remind Americans of that notorious helicopter getaway from the embassy compound...