Word: twinning
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...repealed a law barring dancing on tabletops). Two years ago, city officials stopped tinkering and got serious: over considerable public objection, gambling was legalized. The government subsequently struck deals with major gaming companies to build two casino/resort developments, each costing about $4 billion. When completed, they will be the twin suns around which a solar system of new developments and diversions are expected to revolve...
...Marjane, or Marji in her youth, is a bright, somewhat mouthy kid with a restless imagination and the twin gifts of self-criticism and resilience; she can be knocked down, but never counts herself out. Among her relatives are some whose resistance to the Peacock Throne had led to their confinement and torture. When the clerics take over, Marji shows her defiance in ways both adolescent and forthright. She'll buy an Iron Maiden CD on the black market, and in school she tells her black-scarved teacher, "We've gone from 3,000 [political] prisoners under the Shah...
...beliefs led Kidjo to a twin-track career. There is Kidjo the composer and singer - four of her seven albums have been nominated for Grammies. And there is Kidjo the activist: she is a unicef goodwill ambassador and has founded her own aid group, Batonga, which works to improve women's education in Africa. At the foundation of all her endeavors is a conviction that it's good to talk, and that music is the universal tongue. "Music has been a communication tool since humankind has existed," she says. "Music is a healer, a unifier. It breaks all the barriers...
...Lebanese authorities have accused the group of a twin minibus bombing in the Christian town of Ain Alaq in February in which three people were killed. They also believe Fatah al-Islam members carried out at least three bank robberies, the latest on Saturday when $120,000 was stolen from a bank in the coastal town of Amioun south of Tripoli...
...attacks, can they? Those senseless acts cry out for a powerful, sense-making fictional narrative, but nobody seems to be able to give them one. The latest to miss the mark is perennial top seed DeLillo, above right, whose Falling Man is about a lawyer who escapes the Twin Towers, wanders uptown in a daze and moves in with his estranged wife. DeLillo's tone is crushingly earnest--has he made a joke since 1985? His characters speak in leaden faux profundities, and they're so sunk in post-traumatic ennui you can barely tell them apart...