Word: twinning
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...marriages work and gave eyewitness accounts of Fischer and the girl's "flirtatious behavior." But the verdict was unusual - and, to critics of the alleged abuses in polygamous marriages, especially significant - in that it came without the testimony of the alleged victims. In the FLDS community that populates the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., finding victims willing to speak out is rare. "The nature of this community is opposed to the crimes themselves," explains Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff. "Victims have been taught from the cradle up not to cooperate with the outside or to disagree...
...Your twin sister Isotta, a literature professor, said it was "inappropriate...
...terror and the 1998-2004 rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on a Hindu nationalist agenda - which also stoked a Hindu pogrom in Gujarat in 2002 in which 2,000 Muslims died - has lent further legitimacy to India's lurking anti-Muslim prejudice. In 2003, just before twin bomb blasts in August that killed more than 50, TIME spoke to "Umar," a SIMI operative, or Ansar ("guide"), who said his men were carrying out the attacks. The 44-year-old said: "This country doesn't work for Muslims any more. You can't get a proper education...
...wipe up the mess with a dirty wad of cotton. Yet he doesn’t cry; the room echoes with labored breaths and his mother’s muted sobbing. Perhaps she is remembering a strikingly similar scene from six months ago, when Hassan’s twin brother died of pneumonia.This morning, I asked a pediatrician if Hassan had been tested for AIDS. He shook his head and explained, in halting French and broken English, “With children, there’s no point in invoking a social stigma when there’s nothing...
...that permanence, researchers believe, that makes siblings so valuable a rehearsal tool for later life. Adulthood, after all, is practically defined by peer relationships--the workplace, a marriage, the church building committee. As siblings, we may sulk and fume but by nighttime we still return to the same twin beds in the same shared room. Peace is made when one sib offers a toy or shares a thought or throws a pillow in a mock provocation that releases the lingering tension in a burst of roughhousing. Somewhere in there is the early training for the e-mail joke that breaks...