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...older women over, Dove puts a positive spin on the unhappy moment when a woman buys her first jar of antiwrinkle cream. "The concept is linguistically brilliant," says Cheryl Swanson, a managing partner at Toniq, a brand-strategy firm in New York City. "Skin care has typically been about fighting back--age defying. It's been almost warrior-like. Take a stance against this natural thing that's happening to you. This is different." The strategy tells women, implicitly, that they can look better without trying too hard...
Already facing U.N. sanctions and speculation about a U.S. attack over its nuclear program, Iran's capture of 15 British sailors and marines on March 23 had the makings of a new Middle East crisis that could spin dangerously out of control. So, Tehran's decision to free the captives in what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called a "gift to the British people" was a notable victory for Iranian pragmatists over hard-liners - one that could even build momentum within Tehran's power structure and in Western capitals for a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran's uranium-enrichment program...
What Europe Hath Wrought Re the cover story about Europe since the Treaty of Rome [March 26]: I was sad to see that my favorite magazine has fallen for the European Commission spin. While the report cited 20 benefits from the European Union (E.U.), it was a pity the article did not list the 40 things the E.U. has not done. Auditors have not been able to approve the annual accounts for the European Economic Community because of fraud and corruption. Democracy has been destroyed, since most of our laws are now made by bureaucrats in Brussels...
...Klein's column about Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee served up an excellent snapshot of today's Republican way of thinking [March 26]. Republicans give tax breaks to oil companies that pocket record profits but scoff at a candidate who looks out for his fellow citizens. Honest Abe must spin in his grave every time the G.O.P. refers to itself as the party of Lincoln. Huckabee, unfortunately, has little chance of getting the nomination with his do-unto-others mentality. That kind of thinking just doesn't pass muster in today's Republican Party. Mark McKay, PASCOAG, RHODE ISLAND...
...Olmert was right: it sounded like spin. The implication, of course, was that Abdullah would be pleasantly surprised. But it was an implication impeded by an impossible precondition: that somehow the Saudis would first be able to get the Hamas-led Palestinian government to renounce terrorism and recognize Israel. "It's not going to happen," a member of Olmert's Cabinet told me. "Hamas is getting money and training from Iran. Its militant wing, where the real power lies, is based in Damascus. The Saudis have no influence over them." And the Israelis will have no truck with Hamas. Indeed...