Word: twins
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...chilly spring day, Slavitt stands in front of the Star Market at Somerville’s Twin Cities Plaza, a slowly sinking strip mall. A closed Mars Music store sits entombed at one end of the lot, its windows revealing a dark and empty interior. Drab storefronts advertise a Fleet Bank, Dunkin’ Donuts and SuperCuts. Shoppers carry grocery bags to their cars...
...analysts tracking the army of Osama bin Laden in those days--"instead of two." Or that few of the 56 FBI field offices around the country could remember receiving any of the special alarms that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice says she ordered up before the Twin Towers came crashing down. Had Americans known then that so many worries and so many warnings over so many years had produced so little response in the government agencies assigned to protect us, the future would have looked far scarier on Sept. 12 than the images that had just been burned into...
Cedars was mastered by former Cocteau Twin Simon Raynolds, and the songs are uniformly coated in a glossy veneer, with sweeping doses of strings and bells. “It’s a lot rockier,” Woodward said about the album in concert. “It would be neat, someday, to do an orchestral type thing, think guys?” The other band members nod in approval...
Although affording the Crimson pitchers a longer recovery period from the Cornell twin bill of last Saturday, it will double the difficulties of selecting a hurler to oppose League-leading Princeton this weekend. Whoever holds the mound today cannot easily be rested enough to pitch again by Saturday...
...decision by the Pentagon to swell the U.S. troop contingent in Iraq to 135,000 and make provision for more underscored the extent to which April's twin insurgent flare-ups had stretched the Coalition's combat capability. Allies willing to commit new troops are increasingly scarce, while U.S. officials report that as much as half of the Iraqi security forces recruited by the U.S. have proven to be unreliable against the insurgents. U.S. viceroy J. Paul Bremer on Tuesday said bluntly that such forces won't be in a position to ensure Iraq's security after the planned transfer...