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...biggest Volvo ever made for consumers and probably the most anticipated: the automaker's first true SUV, the model XC90. Just weeks on the market, its sales are red hot. But how does it drive? We took it for a spin. Verdict: the XC90 has brawn and backbone, blending the solid chassis of a Swedish sedan with the commanding stance of an SUV. The driver has a high, clear view of the road, and the controls are easy to read and reach. Volvo's designers added such nifty touches as a children's booster seat in the middle...
...what Tenet is seeking. On July 11 he will become the third longest-serving CIA director, and sources tell TIME he had been mulling retirement before the weapons controversy. The new assignment offers him a chance to go out either as a hero--or a scapegoat. "The spin is that somebody's got to be in charge so that it's being done in an organized fashion," says an intelligence official. "The more cynical view is that they have handed the whole bag of s___ to him." --By Timothy J. Burger and James Carney
...without the support of Britain's Tony Blair and the tacit acceptance of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah, war against Saddam Hussein might not have been possible. "When he needed their help, he made these guys a promise," a senior adviser to the President says. "It sounds like spin, but he takes that stuff seriously...
...staple of prime time; during my childhood, I regularly found patriarchal paragons across the dial - from "Father Knows Best" to "Little House on the Prairie" to the Cos. This year, comedian Bernie Mac would be the obvious choice as TV's favorite dad. His show has a bold spin (he plays a childless husband who takes in his sister's kids while she's in rehab), and the ratings are strong. My trouble with Bernie, though, is his kidside manner. "I'm gonna bust your head till the white meat shows!" he hollers in one episode; "I'm gonna kill...
...Salchow?" In No Visible Horizon (Simon & Schuster; 273 pages), Ramo, a former TIME editor, tells the story of his love affair with a sport that in a bad year, by his estimate, can kill 1 in 30 of its practitioners. Ramo buys a plane and learns to spin, loop, roll and do all three simultaneously at hundreds of miles per hour. He makes pilgrimages to obscure Midwestern airfields for aerobatics competitions, and he seeks out those few masters of the sport who have survived long enough to pass on their wisdom. One of their truisms: "You will almost kill yourself...