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...Cracking down on gangsters and corruption appeals to a population that has resigned itself to these twin evils, and following Cam's arrest, Saigon's newspapers went into a muckraking frenzy, openly asking how far the corruption went and who might be the next government figure to be arrested. After 6 months of that, the government decided that openness about official corruption might not be in the Party's best interest. On June 2002, Vietnam's ideology chairman, Nguyen Khoa Diem, ordered newspapers to tone it down. "They're afraid people are losing their faith in the government," explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye, Godfather | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...time of the goal was Andrea Skinner, Jennifer’s twin sister...

Author: By David Weinfeld, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Rolls in Playoff Preview | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

TEGAN AND SARA. The much-hyped Canadian duo bring their punkish brand of pop to the U.S. The twin sisters have played with the likes of Ryan Adams and Rufus Wainwright, among others. Wednesday, March 5 at 10:45 p.m. Tickets $8. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings, February 28-March 6 | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...complain because I doubt Libeskind. In making its decision on what should replace the twinned frailties of emptiness and memory which confront us in the void where the Twin Towers stood, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) has surely chosen the lesser evil. It is fitting that the garish skeletal frames of the towers that the THINK team proposed have been dismissed. They were a foolish piece of constructivist hyperbole—an ecstatic vertical jungle gym obscuring their funereal base...

Author: By Jeremy B. Reff, | Title: Monumental Error | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...Brigadier General Freakly, the Assistant Division Commander, recently told a group of officers, "Our first and most sincere wish is not to expend our nation's blood and treasure, but if we do have to go fight, then God help them." Note the twin sentiments here - a strong desire to avoid conflict, coupled with the absolute certainty of victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Commanders Think | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

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