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...knack for politics must run in the family. After Jaroslaw Kaczynski led his Law and Justice Party to victory in Poland's parliamentary elections last month, his identical twin brother Lech was elected President last week. The brothers, who talk as many as a dozen times a day by phone ("We have the same family. There is much to discuss," joked Lech in an interview with Time before the parliamentary vote), look set to dominate Polish politics for the next five years. The Kaczynskis' appeal is due in large part to their promises to maintain social programs threatened by their...
...explosive pointed to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), a Pakistan-based group with ties to al-Qaeda that carries out regular attacks in Indian-administered Kashmir and across India. LET was behind a gun attack on the Indian Parliament in New Delhi in December 2001, and linked to a twin bomb attack on India's financial capital, Bombay, in August 2003. While last week's bombs were likely to have been too long in the planning to be an attempt to disrupt Indo-Pak relief cooperation in the wake of the Kashmir earthquake, they will inevitably dampen the spirit of reconciliation...
...Box” is the segment that is both most affecting and hardest to describe. The story, in its bare outline, is that a novelist accidentally killed her twin sister in a horrific way when they were young circus performers. She is plagued by recurring dreams in which she is buried alive in the same small box in which her sister died. Elements of her dream spill over into her life, and her sister starts appearing to her—or is just a manifestation of a guilty conscience...
...first half, Harvard answered quickly, bringing the ball downfield. Senior Anthony Tornaritis nearly scored when his hard shot bounced off the shoulder of a Princeton defender and ricocheted just wide of the post. Just minutes into the second half, Tornaritis got a second chance after his twin brother Nicholas brought the ball down the field in a breakaway and crossed to sophomore Jeremy Tchou, who assisted Tornaritis for the first goal of the game. “When the second half started, we knew we had to pick up the intensity,” Tornaritis said...
...most important distinction of the Coast Guard is that it trusts itself. On the morning of 9/11, Allen, then commander of the Atlantic Area, was getting a physical in Portsmouth, Va. By the time he got back to the office, shortly after the second plane had hit the Twin Towers, a captain in New York had already closed his port. Another captain closed waterways around Baltimore and Washington. They didn't need to ask Allen for permission, and he, in turn, didn't need to ask his commandant for permission to position three large cutters in New York harbor...