Word: twins
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...Time last week. "The governing party's strategy is to win votes by demonizing the transformation [to free markets]." So far that strategy has worked just fine for the pis, which was elected last September (with 156 out of 460 seats in the Sejm) and is led by identical twin brothers Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski. They promise to get tough on corruption, crime and ex-communists, and build a "strong state" that promotes Polish national interests; Jaroslaw is party leader and Lech President. The hung parliament has hampered policymaking, but the brothers' combativeness has kept the political pot boiling. They...
...19th-century journalist and constitutional scholar Walter Bagehot said the monarch had the prerogative "to be consulted, to encourage and to warn" the government of the day, but it is one Elizabeth II never exercises in public (unlike her opinionated son Charles). Yet she still derives power from her twin roles as head of state - the one who opens and dissolves Parliament, makes splashy visits abroad and hosts dinners for foreign leaders - and head of nation, a focus for British unity and identity, rewarder of excellence, a visible oasis of continuity in an accelerating world, even as Prime Ministers...
...been raising twin sons while his wife works, and he feels that Frank disapproves of his lifestyle. Joan also feels her depressed husband has shut her out emotionally, and so she derives a secret plot of her own—learning how to drive...
...pinched in case it was just a dream. He is conscious, however, of the role he has played in history. Three years ago, he told the annual banquet of the Federalist Society about traveling with the President in Florida on Sept. 11, 2001, when initial reports suggested a small twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. "What a horrible accident; the pilot must have had a heart attack or something," the President had said to Card. Later, while Bush was inside a school classroom, Card learned that it looked like a jet liner, and that there...
...many prayers before deciding to flee her West Papuan home with her husband and three-year-old twin sons, Ferra Kambu says she found divine guidance. Surrounded by plastic bags containing their meager possessions in the Melbourne hotel room where the family is staying, the 36-year-old women's rights activist, one of 42 West Papuan asylum seekers released from Australian immigration detention last month on three-year protection visas, says the realization came to her clearly: "I was shown by the Lord that Australia has been given a role as the hand of God in helping to finally...