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Whenever the administration's twin tracks in Iraq get snarled, American support for the war declines. According to an Associated Press--Ipsos poll, public approval of George W. Bush's handling of the war fell to 38% last week, an all-time low. White House officials insist the President will not be scared out of Iraq by the insurgents, much less by falling polls. "We will stay the course," Bush declared last week from his Texas ranch as he began a month's vacation. "We will complete the job in Iraq." Still, Administration officials hit the phones all week long...
...sound of twin sonic booms just after 8 a.m. ET never sounded so good to NASA, signalling re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere after the craft and its heat shield tiles survived the hottest part of the descent at some 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. "We're happy to be home," Discovery commander Eileen Collins transmitted to NASA from the Edwards runway. NASA was happy too-although everyone would have been even happier had they landed in Florida, as scheduled. Unfortunately, cloud cover and lightning forced the landing in California...
...more than 35,000 closed-circuit-television tapes and more than 5,000 leads phoned in by the public on the antiterrorist hot line--police have asked people to program the number into their cell phones--investigators don't have a clear understanding of the dimensions of the twin terrorist plots. British and U.S. officials told TIME that police have not found any forensic link between the July 7 and July 21 bombers--no phone calls, documents or other evidence tying the two groups together. Contrary to earlier speculation, the bombs used on July 7 and July 21 came from...
...read. I can't deny it. I'm intrigued. When people ask me why these magazines are so successful, I think it's partly celebrities, but I also think it's a love of gossip. When we gossip about our friends, we feel guilty, we feel that this evil twin part of us was doing it. Afterwards, you have that hangover from having perhaps broken a confidence, or said something negative or tacky about a friend. When you're gossiping about Jude Law, you don't feel your karma...
Ronald Knox, the celebrated British mystery writer and author of the “Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction” (1929) concluded those commandments with the following: “Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them...