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...images that “take on this mantra-like way.” Jamison says Ziegler’s work is populated by “people who start as one or two sensationalized details but become fully-realized characters,” including a pair of identical twin brothers and a one-armed fireworks vendor. “She writes fiction in an unusual, complex, cryptic voice full of surprise and mystery,” the agent writes in an e-mail. “She has the ability to write stories that read as if they have...
...Beijing, the Taiwan problem comes amid a growing clamor for more democracy in Hong Kong. Faced with these twin challenges, China is unlikely to back down. Indeed, last week Chinese legal experts warned that there could be no further moves toward democracy in Hong Kong without Beijing's approval?a hard-line approach that China would dearly love to apply to Taiwan, too. Unhappily for the Communists, Taiwan?with its own army, constitution and democratically elected government?has a proud history of remaining defiant in the face of threats from Beijing. China's reaction to how Taiwan runs its affairs...
...special significance for sophomore defenseman Jennifer Skinner, who was facing her twin sister Andrea, a sophomore winger for Cornell, for the second straight year...
...most frustrating power play came in the third period, after Cornell’s Shane Hynes scored at 5:09. Chris Abbott went off for tripping 29 seconds later, but the only shot on goal during the ensuing power play came from Abbott’s twin brother Cam, who stole a pass from Pettit to Welch and had his breakaway chance turned aside by Harvard junior goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris...
...capital Mal? is no longer a squalid speck of dirt and disease between India and Africa but a genteel hamlet of cobbled roads, shoreline restaurants and tasteful coffeehouses. Gayoom boasts that he is both an environmental and religious champion, protecting reefs and 300,000 Muslim Maldivians from the twin dangers of global warming and the bikini-clad hordes who crowd the islands' 87 high-end resorts. Today, the 40,000 tourists who fly in every month are met by speedboat taxis moored in a coral lagoon and a banner that reads: "Welcome to the sunny side of life...