Word: twins
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...read. I can't deny it. I'm intrigued. When people ask me why these magazines are so successful, I think it's partly celebrities, but I also think it's a love of gossip. When we gossip about our friends, we feel guilty, we feel that this evil twin part of us was doing it. Afterwards, you have that hangover from having perhaps broken a confidence, or said something negative or tacky about a friend. When you're gossiping about Jude Law, you don't feel your karma...
Ronald Knox, the celebrated British mystery writer and author of the “Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction” (1929) concluded those commandments with the following: “Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them...
...arced colonnades that enclose St. Peter’s Square seem like the twin mandibles of a great insect opening its jaws toward the city of Rome, inviting the citizenry into the mouth of Catholicism. Accepting their offer, I claimed a seat in the Vatican’s square alongside ten thousand devoted pilgrims and curious visitors, all hoping to catch a glimpse of Pope Benedict XVI, Catholicism’s holiest man and the modern world’s most potent religious leader...
Gilligan, 22, fell from a 336 Central Park West apartment shared by his college roommate, Daniel L. Seltzer ’05, and Seltzer’s twin, Sarah M. Seltzer ‘05, who is also a Crimson editor. The Seltzer family was sleeping in the apartment when Gilligan fell to his death...
...acquired for him "a life and power far beyond its letter" and became another sacred text, which restored the Declaration to its rightful place at the center of the nation's laws. Henceforth, he said, Jan. 1 would rank with July 4 as the twin births of liberty...