Word: twins
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...heart of the issue is the existence of two separate e-mail systems in the Bush White House: one for official business, the other for political e-mails on laptops owned by the Republican National Committee. The twin systems were supposed to keep politics and government separate, but hearings have revealed that crucial conversations about the U.S. Attorney firings were conducted on RNC laptops. The White House says that an unknown number of e-mails were deleted from the RNC servers...
...will be up to the new dean to lead the way in policing the system so that exemptions and departmental alternatives are the rule and not the exception.Beyond the new general education system, we hope the new dean focuses his energies on undergraduate education on Harvard’s twin Achilles Heels: the advising system and the teaching of writing.Advising at Harvard is wildly inconsistent. While some students are blessed with advisers sensitive to their needs and intimately knowledgeable of the College’s courses of study, others are saddled with professors—or worse yet graduate students?...
...embrace the extremes of pant width, then who can? THREE TIPS FOR LEG-WIDENING 1) Pair these pants with something tighter on top so that you don’t look like you were in the wild with only a burlap sack for clothing and a twin with whom you could only speak twin language. 2) Don’t make your pants so long that they cover your shoes. Victoria Beckham is the only person I know who can do this, and that is because the title of her exceedingly long tell-all is “Learning...
...justify why one is suffering. While I can point to a specific and admittedly uncommon cause for my depression, others are not afforded such a socially acceptable explanation. In March of my senior year of high school, my father died unexpectedly from a massive stroke after heart surgery. My twin sister and I, having lost our mother to cancer when we were 12, worked with our siblings to sell our home as we departed for college. Rather than take a year off before school, I just wanted to move on, so I hid my issues behind the exciting change that...
...Keret's real subjects are Israel's teenage soldiers turned unsettled couch potatoes, the 20-something slacker veterans who live in the twin shadows of the Holocaust and their state's martial heritage. For all his imaginative pyrotechnics, Keret's aim is engage his reader with the everyday oddness of Israel. "I would call it subjective realism," he says of his bizarre storylines. "I am trying to show things the way they feel." Overwhelmingly, in Keret's fiction, things feel edgy. Throughout Missing Kissinger, there is the sense of the dark slap-shtick of a country where, through dumb luck...