Word: twins
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...twin brothers Jez and Andy Williams and their friend Jimi Goodwin formed Sub Sub, playing disco-club tunes and garnering great success with their single “Ain’t No Love (Ain’t No Use).” However, despite the group’s efforts to explore new sounds, they could not break their typecast as a disco-club group. While Sub Sub matured musically, its audience didn’t. In a desperate move, the three eventually decided to change their name and scrap their history...
...better option than seeing another film by Schwarzenegger.” With a cool reception at the box office, the film was seen as the last gasp of a fading star. As it turned out, Arnold was still good for another gasp, namely 2000’s evil twin picture The 6th Day. Arnold called the film “timely” in its discussion of cloning. Audiences found it timelier to avoid the film altogether...
Every socialite and CEO in Manhattan knows not to invite Sumner Redstone and Mel Karmazin to the same party. So when the twin egos of media giant Viacom unexpectedly shared the stage during a dinner for investors last Thursday, they generated quite a buzz. Some who have bet heavily on the success of Viacom--whose properties include CBS, MTV and Paramount studios--took heart that the feuding titans made a public show of getting along. "Their message was simple," Bear Stearns stock analyst Raymond Katz wrote in a report on Friday. "Their partnership, built on a mutuality of self-interest...
...horrible thing that this is where our energies need to be pulled," says Cheri Sparacio, 37, the widow of Thomas Sparacio, a currency trader at Euro Brokers who died in Tower 2. In their modest house in Staten Island, littered with the toys of her twin two-year-olds, she explains why she sees the estimated $138,000 she would get from the fund as a cheap bribe. "The government is not taking any responsibility for what it's done. This was just one screw-up after another." She is also worried about her financial stability; in less than...
...Tuesday, President George W. Bush unveiled his first budget to a nation wading through a recession and engulfed in a war on terrorism. The budget, which sharply boosts military spending while cutting many domestic programs, reflects Bush’s conservative approach to these twin challenges. But the compassion for less fortunate Americans that he trumpeted in the presidential campaign seems to have fallen by the wayside as the fight against al-Qaeda has become the administration’s all-consuming priority...