Word: twinness
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...weekday afternoon, school buses roll into the front lot of Fresh Pond Apartments, a low-income housing complex in North Cambridge that looks like a freshman’s worst nightmare the evening before Housing Day—an enormous Mather House multiplied by two, twin brick towers facing each other which rise more than 20 stories high...
...used to the stares and nudges. I've even developed a couple of airy responses to the inevitable comments that arise from co-workers and friends along the lines of "Um, your husband is so hot..." Sometimes I go with "Oh, that's not my husband--that's my twin brother," and other times a dismissive "Yeah, but back in Australia I'm considered a great beauty. It's Nicole Kidman who's the hag." Each time, it hurts just a little less...
...PLAY THE HERO'S EVIL TWIN...
...heart of the issue is the existence of two separate e-mail systems in the Bush White House: one for official business, the other for political e-mails on laptops owned by the Republican National Committee. The twin systems were supposed to keep politics and government separate, but hearings have revealed that crucial conversations about the U.S. Attorney firings were conducted on RNC laptops. The White House says that an unknown number of e-mails were deleted from the RNC servers...
...will be up to the new dean to lead the way in policing the system so that exemptions and departmental alternatives are the rule and not the exception.Beyond the new general education system, we hope the new dean focuses his energies on undergraduate education on Harvard’s twin Achilles Heels: the advising system and the teaching of writing.Advising at Harvard is wildly inconsistent. While some students are blessed with advisers sensitive to their needs and intimately knowledgeable of the College’s courses of study, others are saddled with professors—or worse yet graduate students?...