Word: twins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pure irony that Weisbrod and Vukonich both ended up at Harvard. The two--dubbed the twin Towers upon their arrival at Harvard--had originally met in the press box at a Colorado-Denver hockey game. Weisbrod, a New York native, was a Denver recruit and was sitting with the Denver Coach. Vukonich was a Colorado recruit and was with the Colorado coach...
...emotional strain weighs on the military parents, who find themselves torn between the call of their country and the needs of their children. "They miss them; they feel robbed," says Villarreal, who puts the twin infants in her care close to the phone whenever their mom Laura calls from Saudi Arabia, just so she can hear them...
...others are not nearly so tame. One student, who spoke under the twin conditions of absolute anonymity and the gift of a large hammer, acknowledged over lunch that he pounds posters into the walls with as many staplers as he can find. "You'll never get me to believe that Bok uses poster gum in his office," he said. "The whole thing is a big joke the maintenance staff lays on us, year after year. Well, I'll show them...
Each week a staff of 32 based in New York City works with our 19 bureaus around the world to shape stories, cull pictures and lay out the pages for the fraternal twin of the U.S. edition. With a circulation of 1.5 million, TIME International produced 1,500 pages on its own last year, including 37 cover stories. It has, in short, become a magazine in its own right -- and as such it needs the editorial organization that will ensure its further growth and vitality. Effective this week, Karsten Prager becomes managing editor of TIME International, and his deputy...
From all this (and much else besides) I have learned certain lessons which will not meet with your approval: generals are paid to lie and engineer efficient slaughter, soldiers are compelled into the twin insanities of anonymous murder (or, at best, complicity) and the nominal mental illness of post-traumatic stress disorder, it is all shit and lies and death. The personal ramifications are clear: I would not, and could not, defend my country or you or my loved ones or myself. I will not die for any reason, least of all to make my death...