Word: twins
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...sits in the kitchen of her modest home in Buffalo, N.Y., Ani DiFranco has Minneapolis, Minn., on her mind. In 1999 she was summoned to the Twin Cities by the Artist Who Is Now Called Prince but Who at That Point Was Going by That Weird Symbol. He wanted her to play guitar on a song he had just written, so he played her the tune (just once), told her simply, "It's in G," and began to record, expecting DiFranco to improvise something on the spot. Says DiFranco: "I thought I could either start crying...
...driven child has been coming for a while, but it was in 1994 that the new breed was truly born. That was the year the Carnegie Corp. published a 134-page report describing a "quiet crisis" among U.S. children, who it argued were being ill served by their twin-career parents and their often failing school systems. The report's findings were worrisome enough, but buried in its pages were two disturbing paragraphs warning that schoolkids might not be the only ones suffering; babies could be too. Young brains are extremely sensitive to early influences, the report cautioned...
...it’s in steady supply.” The problem is that the book’s readers are not elementary school students asking what fear is. The stark factual style that seems reasonable when discussing facts is a bit baffling and annoying when Galeano beats the twin drums of truisms and vague generalities. No one is surprised to learn that if Chilean newspapers declared the U.S. government to be unsatisfactory, they would be ridiculed. Slogging through such a catalogue of our sins can become tiresome, but when it does, any decent person is then ashamed...
...second game of Friday's twin-bill, Harvard sophomore Kenon Ronz made quick work of Yale, throwing a complete nine-inning game while surrendering just one run on three hits...
Falling mortgage rates have also done wonders for those who sell them. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the twin towers of mortgage finance, both raised their 2001 growth expectations last month. Countrywide Credit Industries, the largest independent residential mortgage firm, escaped the carnage on Wall Street, gaining 10% in March, but remaining flat...