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Once the game started, the cosmic indicatorsdid not improve. The worst moment came in thefourth quarter, when junior Clint Kollar got ahand on Ryan Kiernan's punt. The ball wobbled,spun end-over-end, hit the ground and rolled. Androlled. By the time it was downed, the punt hadtraveled 40 yards. Harvard's longest punt of theday was 39 yards...
...White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said something similar in TIME. But what exactly is the nature of these betrayals? They surely didn't believe, until Aug. 16, that Monica Lewinsky was making it all up. Stephanopoulos helped quash "bimbo eruptions" during the 1992 campaign, and both aides spun mightily for the President they now say can't be trusted...
Journalists' shameful secret is that we love being spun. The networks vie for the privilege of having the next round of lies uttered on their particular Sunday talk show. It's called "advancing the story." Correspondents, only human, are flattered to be leaked upon by important people. Spinning gives journalists something to interpret. If politicos ever started saying it straight, reporters would have nothing to be knowing about...
...Russian people have been lied to for centuries. Generations of Czars spun visions of a world that eventually proved to be an illusion. The communists, their ideology and the Soviet state turned out to be illegitimate as well. Little wonder that today's citizens are confused and distrustful, wondering what, if anything, they can believe in. For the most part, they do not trust their government, and the administration of President Boris Yeltsin is not helping. It talks reform but hasn't been able to deliver fully. It bills its economy as a free-market system when it actually...
...vegetables, should be thoroughly cleaned." We at Dole Food Co. found this statement to be inaccurate. The wash system used by Dole results in a safer food than can be produced by most consumers at home. Cut salad is washed in three stages of chilled, sanitized water before being spun dry and sealed in packages. The result is a safe, wholesome food that consumers can eat with confidence. There has never been a food-borne-illness outbreak traced to triple-washed, packaged salad. Don't alarm consumers unnecessarily. THOMAS J. PERNICE, Vice President Public Affairs Dole Food...