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Benson Saler and Charles A. Ziegler, professors of anthropology at Brandeis University, have just published a study of what they call the Roswell Myth, which in their view has "religious-like" elements without being religion per se. Its primary purpose, Saler and Ziegler say, is twofold. One is as a means of social protest, in that the Roswell story is in great part an antigovernment narrative; as Zeigler points out, the Incident was largely ignored until the late '70s, when it resurfaced and resonated with a public made cynical by those twin devils, Vietnam and Watergate. By then...
Here Wilson introduces the fruitful fences imagery. For much of the play Troy is trying to build a fence for his yard. Fences serve a twofold purpose--to keep people in or out--and both aspects appear in the play. When Troy's wife, Rose (Dolyta Avant '99), is concerned about keeping her family together, the fences serve to limit Troy's distance from his family. When Corey leaves because of his father, the fences exaggerate the importance of the fight between the two and keep Corey away from the house until his father's funeral...
TIPS promise a twofold benefit: first, to safeguard investors' principal against the ravages of rising prices; second, to cut the cost of financing America's $4 trillion national debt. Wall Street too is happy: bond dealers get a new plaything in the bargain. Gushes Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers: "This is a win-win idea: better for citizens, better for government, better for financial markets...
...fact, the importance of choosing the VentureStar was twofold. Not only is it the first new U.S. rocket design in 25 years, but it also represents the first space shuttle to be drafted, built, tested and maintained by private enterprise--allowing NASA to get out of the space cargo business and back to...well, to pure rocket science...
...crisis Yeltsin could not count on the military's support. "Unlike in the past," says Satarov, "when the President was popular and so the army sided with him, I'm not at all sure what they would do in such a circumstance." Kozyrev believes the outcome could be a twofold victory for the army. "They don't like the President and would like to be rid of him," he says. "If he loses the election, they could see him gone while at the same time appearing as defenders of the people's will...