Word: twins
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...longer-term impact could be for everyone. Will the U.S. be able to continue sucking in the savings of people around the world to finance its profligacy? What is the likelihood that President George W. Bush--or the financial markets--will take corrective action? And could America's twin deficits ultimately destabilize not just the U.S. but the entire global economy? The U.S.'s soaring budget deficit is expected to exceed $400 billion this year (not including the forecast $100 billion--plus costs of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan), and its record $617.7 billion trade deficit means that...
...recent weeks many academics have rallied to the defense of Ward Churchill, an unkempt University of Colorado professor who, in a published essay, referred to victims of the September 11 attacks as “little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers.” It is tellingly hypocritical that some of these same academics now seek to strong-arm Harvard’s president for raising a plausible and empirically testable hypothesis at an academic conference...
...added, “So, I think, while I would prefer to believe otherwise, I guess my experience with my two-and-a-half-year-old twin daughters who were not given dolls and who were given trucks, and found themselves saying to each other, ‘Look, daddy truck is carrying the baby truck,’ tells me something...
...scene is nothing compared to the doughnut scene. Up and down Landsdown Street, Goths, Punks, and Ravers roam in search of late-night munchies. At 4 a.m. those who eschew the hollow promises of the Late Night Sausage Guy are duly rewarded as Twin Doughnuts flings open its doors to meet the tattooed masses yearning to eat for (almost…) free...
...Twin Doughnuts, named by the original owner after the birth of his twins, is perched at the juncture of North Beacon and Cambridge Streets (easily accessible by the T’s Route 66 Night Owl Bus). Doughnut-lovers and hungry clubbers are drawn to this late night Mecca by its inviting 1950’s-style neon-pink sign...