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General Augusto Pinochet has accepted political responsibility for the atrocities committed by his military junta. Now he may be forced to take personal responsibility. Less than a week after Pinochet issued a statement spun by his handlers as an acceptance of political responsibility for crimes committed by the armed forces during his 17-year reign, a Chilean judge on Friday charged Pinochet with kidnapping. The general is expected to be placed under house arrest shortly, and to go to court to answer charges arising out of the 1973 "caravan of death" - the series of incidents in which some 70 political...
...meeting quickly spun out-of-control as members made motions and counter-motions--voting at one point to suspend all of the parliamentary rules...
...Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Ala., and later turned his efforts to the poor and homeless. Though he won election to local and state offices, he said one of his happiest days was in '63--when he returned to that Savannah drugstore with his sons. They all spun on the stools even after the counterman closed the fountain down. Williams told them, "It's been a long time comin', boys, so let's enjoy...
...Frank Lautenberg. Though the biggest issue in the race was the amount of campaign spending (Republicans dubbed Corzine the "human ATM machine"), Corzine ran on one of the most liberal platforms in the nation, advocating such edgy programs as public preschool and universal health care. On the trail, Corzine spun the funding issue in his favor, noting he would not be beholden to campaign contributors. But for all the money spent, Corzine's winning margin was a slim...
...study, James Miles and J. Randall Woolridge, finance professors at Penn State, found that on average, management spends more to improve its business after it's been spun off than it did when it was part of a larger entity. They also found that spin-off companies have a better than average chance of being taken over. By their calculations, spin-offs outperform a peer group by 30 percentage points over three years, parent companies by 19 points...