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...long way from Dixie to Hollywood. Whereas they spun doughnuts on the infield at Talladega, you can get a massage and a manicure on the infield in California. And there's white wine and Brie instead of beer and pork rinds. You can have your choice of suite sizes too. The single, 20 ft. by 21 ft., goes for $40,000 for two racing events. The double is $80,000. Two years after the speedway opened, all 75 suites are booked, there's a waiting list, and 28 new super boxes are coming...
...Wheeldon can do much more than conjure up spun-sugar fantasies. The witty Soiree Musicale, which the school premiered last year, for instance, contains a show-stopping tango in which a femme fatale picks up new partners one by one, eventually dancing with a dozen admirers simultaneously. And Corybantic Ecstasies, given its premiere in March by the Boston Ballet, is a tough-minded, tautly argued work that shows off Wheeldon's ability to infuse the disciplined language of classical ballet with high emotion...
...showed "Wag the Dog" when the bombing began, and now Belgrade is venturing into creating its own made-for-TV events. The Yugoslav army staged a tiny "troop withdrawal" Thursday, moving about 120 soldiers out of Kosovo before assembled Western reporters at a border post. A senior officer then spun the reporters the line that the only thing slowing Yugoslav withdrawal was NATO's continued bombing. It was a lame stunt, but it pointed to the key obstacle to a Russian-mediated peace process: Moscow wants a simultaneous Yugoslav withdrawal and cessation of NATO's bombing, but NATO...
...years, he has pulled PepsiCo out of the restaurant business, jettisoning fast-food chains, including Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken, which had combined sales of $11 billion. The profits were tasty, but the capital required to build restaurants was giving Pepsi heartburn. Last month the company spun off its main $7 billion bottling operation into an independent public company, something Coke did years ago to create Coca-Cola Enterprises. The soda business actually has two components, the first of which, making and marketing cola concentrate, is very profitable. Mixing that concentrate with carbonated water, putting...
...believed in his redemption because it fit the story we were spun. In the role of fall guy, Strawberry gave a performance that would make Lee Majors proud...