1.   So the fate of the Republic would someday lie in the hands of judges, lawyers and spin doctors?

2.   Spin doctors?

3.   The chief answer is too obvious to suit pundits and spin doctors in search of profundity and high-concept.

4.   The defter of the dueling dual-continent spin doctors?

5.   They hated the handicapping, the attention paid to spin doctors, the silly sizing-up of sound bites.

6.   They range from senators and congressmen to soundbite artists and spin doctors, as the Beltway crowd does San Diego.

7.   Annan then said he had no immediate plans to go, sending Kremlin spin doctors into a frenzy of explanations.

8.   Their campaigns featured a war room, a fast response team and spin doctors.