Word: twinning
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...American colossus had been laid bare. The desperate decisions of some World Trade Center employees to leap to their deaths rather than burn in the flames, the heartrending phone calls of the doomed passengers on the fateful flights, the apocalyptic tsunami of dust that engulfed lower Manhattan as the Twin Towers imploded and fell--this was America's waking nightmare...
...pervasive a media presence--the black glasses, the Polish accent, the inexhaustible cheer--that you half expected a spiky Libeskind tower to erupt soon on every street corner. Then the Trade Center project got away from him. The New York City developer who held the lease on the Twin Towers brought in his own architect to "collaborate" on the centerpiece Freedom Tower. Libeskind, who was a canny enough player to have ushered a Jewish Museum into the heart of Berlin, was gradually marginalized. By the time construction began in April, the much revised skyscraper bore so little resemblance...
...moment. Ironically, having achieved success by virtue of the freedom offered by a country built primarily by European Christians, they maintain a deafening silence in the face of atrocities enacted each day by their co-religionists. As the widow of a good and decent man murdered in the Twin Towers, I find their apathy unconscionable. LESLIE DIMMLING Garden City...
...weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to have attended a small lunch for General Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to President George H.W. Bush. General Scowcroft described the two broad historic themes of American foreign policy--call them traditionalism vs. transformationalism, or the realists vs. the idealists. The twin poles are represented by John Quincy Adams, who famously said the U.S. "goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy," and Woodrow Wilson, who believed that America was a shining city on a hill and that it was our national destiny to be evangelists for democracy. While that...
...peaceful conclusion to Jeffs' capture has left Shurtleff hopeful. "This should send a message that nobody is above the law, and hopefully it will encourage some [victims] to come forward." Shurleff anticipates changes in the group's community, especially in the twin cities of Hildale and Colorado City, where the sect is based. "Their feelings about him, their fear of him, their loyalty to him - we're hoping will start to crumble...