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...successors (incredibly, there have been five since the 2001 crash) created an even bigger mess, and jaded Argentines have apparently decided that Menem is as good as their politicians will ever get. Menem, one of the first President Bush's favorite Latin American leaders, has a more positive spin. "I left a functioning, growing economy," he insisted to Time. "Our current crisis simply makes people remember how good things were when I was President." And as if to highlight his revived potency, the sports-car enthusiast announced last week that he and his wife, Chilean TV celebrity Cecilia Bolocco...
...It’s part of the job,” he says nonchalantly, shrugging off a year’s worth of New Musical Express cover stories and Spin raves. “I guess you can never see anything that’s in the near future...
...matter the evidence." Dee Dee Myers, former press secretary to Bill Clinton, deadpans that a spokesperson should "make sure your words would make sense down the road - say, in a day. This was certainly not his forte." Sadly, the minister disappeared just before he had the chance to spin the fall of Baghdad, leaving his viewers no choice but to believe their lying eyes. - By James Poniewozik. Reported by Matthew Cooper/ Washington...
...measure the speed of light to 18 decimal places.” Farkas is making a small assembly for a rotating laser mount out of Invar, a metal that resists the expansion and contraction associated with laser research. He invites FM to take the digital mill for a spin. “Just lower the bit five thousandths of an inch and press the button,” he instructs. The hot lubricant launches nano-specks of Invar on smoking parabolic trajectories...
...forgotten SAT score? Does the 5 in an ID number mean that the holder is an admissions mistake? According to David R. Wamback of Harvard University Identification and Data Services, the conspiracy theorists have once again fallen into the great pitfall of their trade—the tendency to spin such scandals out of nothing...