Anthony Lewis, who retired in 2001 and died this March two days shy of his 86th birthday, was insufferably smug too.
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The Islanders will play roughly every two days this season, compared with every 2.2 days in 2011-2012.
Taking in all the X-Factors, I've been thinking about this match for two days, I still come back to the wind conditions...
But I think he said that everybody in that room will be engaged in this in the two days before we get to Sunday, and then obviously in the meeting on Sunday.
But Fifa president-elect Sepp Blatter's statements reinforcing this led to two days of tough justice and a rash of red cards - including one to French playmaker Zinedine Zidane, whose two-game ban after France's match against Saudi Arabia, put his World Cup future in doubt.
Spiralling political tensions led the Emir to suspend the National Assembly for one month on 18 June, but this was superseded two days later by a ruling by the Constitutional Court that annulled the February election and reinstated the parliament that had been dissolved in December 2011.
"We would have liked a longer pause than this, a genuine humanitarian pause of a longer period than two days but this is a good first step, " he added.
Still, even in the face of all this, and only two days since the attack, Mr Hashwani is defiantly upbeat.
Ethnic Uyghurs have been blamed for the alleged syringe stabbings, and demonstrators clashed with police in Urumqi for two days this week over the issue.
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In a sign of just such a development, shares in Fuji Bank by no means the worst-off of Japan's banking giants did not trade for two days this week, so concerned has the market become about its health.
The ninth edition of the D: All Things Digital conference gets under way in earnest this morning, with two days of what should be some news-making interviews with CEOs facing some tough questioning from moderators Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
After two days of this, Mary made contact with volunteers in Manchester who help asylum seekers.
But on the first two days of this week, says the FT, outflow exceeded 1.2bn euros.
This was despite leaving nearly two days after the other 16 boats taking part in the race.
Two days after this he went out and broke his ankle in practice.
However, there were two deaths in races in the first two days of this week's meeting, prompting criticism from animal welfare groups.
Mr Mortazavi was arrested earlier this month and held for two days in Tehran's Evin prison, before he was released, Iranian media said.
Ms Tenenbaum said this was unAmerican, but two days later he added that pregnant, unmarried women should not be allowed to teach either.
True, a year on this planet lasts just two Earth days, but NASA's Jack Lissauer says the planet feels quite a bit like home.
But two days before this team was supposed to be in Washington, the state of Alabama was hit by a series of devastating tornados.
Containing linseed, sun raisins, liquorice and rum, Mrs Beeton wrote that the "worst cold is generally cured by this remedy in two or three days".
The fact that all it took was innuendo based on guilt by association and just two days cut this gain in half is even more so.
And since even market-darling Apple (AAPL) has been hit over the last two days, this, along with some of the other weighty issues bears watching going forward.
So across the board, Kazakhstan has been a key leader on these issues and is appropriately going to be featured during the next two days at this nuclear security summit.
This point was acknowledged just two days ago by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl who noted that German attempts to deliver food to Soviet citizens have thus far had only limited success.
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Two days before this year's festival, The Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans held a "teach-in" regarding noise ordinances and zoning regulations, motivated by confrontations over street performances and music venues in newly gentrifying neighborhoods.
Capt Allister has alerted Environment Agency Wales to his concerns and said a series of meetings would be carried out after cockling ends on Thursday and before it possibly resumes for a further two days later this month.
But Public Bill Committees (they used, misleadingly, to be called Standing Committees) are now allowed to call in witnesses - and the evidence given across two intensive days this week was sometimes quite riveting - both for content and for drama.
I'm rested and relaxed after two days at this wellness-lite resort in the desert two hours east of San Diego--an effect of the vast saturated-blue sky, the 650, 000 acres of nature preserve all around, that cushy bed in my guest room, and, best of all, the laid-back approach to the mindfulness mission.
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