Just as a tennis player puts spin on the ball in order to influence the direction of its bounce, so too do public figures (especially politicians) try to "spin" events so as to favorably influence coverage by the news media. The first...

Spin may refer to: Rotation, rotating on an axis, spin around, spinning top, etc Spin (physics), (or "particle spin") a fundamental property of elementary particles Spin group, a particular double cover of the special orthogonal group SO(n) Spin...

The realities and the rumors The "Shall we or shall we not teach spins?" debate has been raging since spins were removed from the private-pilot curriculum decades ago by the FAA, who preferred instead to concentrate on stall recognition and prevention. Under today's...

Public Relations (PR) people seek to draw the spotlight onto their clients, rather than themselves. Lately, though, there has been a growing interest in the spin doctors and image-makeover personnel in their own right. People are realising that good PR can get a...

 Back in the day when jokes about George Bush were still funny, Michael Moore was well liked by the relatively few fans who followed his career after the cult success of his debut documentary Roger & Me. His incendiary comments about the Bush administration, both...