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...their textbooks. Her parents, upper-class leftists, risk their lives marching for the revolution - only to watch as it is hijacked by Islamic fundamentalists. Satrapi herself tries on identities like costumes; first she is convinced she is a prophet and has regular consultations with God in her bedroom. Then, during the revolution, she demonstrates with her friends in the backyard, pretending to be Che Guevara. After the revolution is over, Satrapi listens as a family friend newly released from prison recounts how the nerves in the foot can be perfect torture receptacles. "My parents were so shocked that they forgot...
...culture: a denim jacket, chocolate and posters of Kim Wilde and Iron Maiden, which they dutifully smuggle in the lining of a coat. After she is threatened by the Guardians of the Revolution on the street, who berate her for her sneakers and jacket, she locks herself in her bedroom and dances madly to Kids in America. But Satrapi does not neglect the darker side of human adaptation, either. As one corrupt leadership is swapped with another, the hypocrisy trickles down. A neighbor who has always had a spot on her cheek now claims she got it from a bullet...
Ting Wang ’02, a first-year student at YLS, said he was in his bedroom, in another wing of the building when the bomb exploded. He said that while students closer to the explosion described feeling the building shake, he and his neighbors were initially unaware of the incident...
Laci Peterson, a substitute schoolteacher, was 27 years old and eight months pregnant when she disappeared. The baby already had a name, Conner, and a blue nursery decorated with a nautical theme. Scott told police that his wife left the couple's three-bedroom home to walk the dog, while he drove to the Berkeley Marina for a fishing trip. In the early days of the search for Laci, her family described Scott, 30, a fertilizer salesman, as a loving husband and model son-in-law, and remained loyal even when Modesto police began searching his house, boat...
Although he was born and bred in Cambridge, he was proud of his heritage. Two Puerto Rican flags hang on the wall of his third-floor bedroom while one rests folded on a table next...