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...should make a disclosure before I review Audrey Niffenegger's new novel, which is that I'm an identical twin. I didn't have anything to disclose with her previous novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, because even after numerous attempts I have not yet successfully traveled in time. But Her Fearful Symmetry (Scribner; 406 pages) is about a pair of identical twins, Julia and Valentina, whose mother and aunt, Edwina and Elspeth, are also identical twins...
Fryhofer’s twin brother George, a walk-on to the Varsity lightweight crew team that discovered Harvard on one of his sister’s early recruiting visits, notes her athletic prowess...
George approves of his twin sister’s decision...
...many liberal Democrats, the USA Patriot Act and the state secrets privilege represent twin controversial monuments to the post-Sept. 11 secrecy of the Bush era. The Patriot Act, which Congress passed just weeks after al-Qaeda's attacks and reauthorized in 2006, created sweeping new powers for the federal government that some critics on the left, as well as some on the right, see as unnecessarily broad at best and unconstitutional at worst. And in court, the Bush Administration frequently invoked the state secrets privilege - the right to withhold information that compromises national security - to block civil litigation...
Showing up to a party and seeing three other girls wearing the same backless jersey dress from Urban Outfitters can really crimp your style and ruin an otherwise excellent night. Those hoping to avoid a twin fiasco at the next House formal now have a new option just down Mass. Ave.—Vintage Revenge. “Our society is very disposable, and vintage is not,” said owner Denise Goldhagen, who opened her shop in mid-August after closing her previous vintage store in Montana. “It’s all been brought...