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...Michelson, pre-med counselor at Harvard's Office of Career Services, said that because of Goldstein's unique dual role, "he's got a really good and interesting perspective...
...crisis has turned the spotlight unflatteringly on Clinton's whole policy of dual containment, intended to isolate both Iraq and the other rogue state of Iran. It requires a costly and highly visible concentration of U.S. military might ($40 billion a year by one estimate) that is no longer so welcome in conservative and often xenophobic Gulf states. Meanwhile, Saddam remains uncowed and free to mount new disruptions, to defy the U.S. wherever he can. While Washington has curbed his appetite for external adventures, it has failed to control his misbehavior at home. He has buffed up his tough...
...film's comic-book unreality, the real appeal, as Chan fans know, lies in one edge-of-the-seat fact: he performs all his own stunts, and so does Khan. This puts the audience in the thrilling, dual position of appreciating the fantasy while still being able to wince...
Rarely do those who live inside the 495 loop have such a dual state and local prospective. The people of Medford, Dedham, Canton and Newton commute to Boston everyday, go to a restaurant in the city on the weekend, spend a week of their summer on the Cape, and if they don't read the Globe, they read the Herald. Some still hold onto a local spirit, but the overwhelming majority have only a metropolitan identity. To them, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is Boston...
...worker A self-proclaimed "cultural warrior," he spent 15 years homeless, in and out of mental-health institutions. As the executive director of Double Trouble, he's on the other side of the examining table. Each year the 12-step program aids hundreds of people who are carrying the dual burden of psychiatric illness and narcotics addiction. To Vogel those he counsels are "not just patients but people I actually identify with...