That led to a turnabout that amounted to an embarrassment for both Mr. Annan and the Bush administration, which had faced repeated questioning from some allies about why it had not pressured Israel harder on various fronts in recent months.
Education is emerging as an answer, largely because executives see a way to capitalize on the changes that technology is bringing to classrooms — turnabout as fair play, given the way that the Web has upended major media's own business models.
The teen-to-adult turnabout theme isn't particularly novel.
Still, some Democrats were almost gleeful, pointing to a turnabout in the historic pattern that saw political power shift away from the city and to the suburbs.
But Democrats, hopeful that the Medicare fight is a path to a political turnabout, are clinging to the recent developments like koalas to eucalyptus trees, insisting that the New York race was, as Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, said, "a bellwether for elections to come".
The third story, "Turnabout Serenade," marked the first time motion-capture data had been used to create a video in the game.
And that leads to the turnabout-is-fair-play question that's been asked a lot, but needs to be asked at least through November: What if Obama had offered Michelle up in a biker beauty contest, or had called her a cunt?
But race officials scurried out, shooing the riders into a turnabout to a nearby steakhouse with no relation to the race's tradition.
Among the Clutter kinfolk, the Thanksgiving get-together was an annual, turnabout to-do, and this year Herb was the appointed host, so it had to be done, but, coinciding, as it did, with the preparations for Beverly's wedding, Mrs. Clutter despaired of surviving either project.
But pointing to a major turnabout in the market, Ms. Fox and other brokers say that fewer buyers are willing to shoulder increasingly grueling gut renovations.
