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...woman who used to flit round the neighborhood in miniskirts suddenly dons a full-length chador. The war with Iraq begins, but the cancers within seem almost as toxic as the bombs outside. Satrapi's mother puts up black curtains to prevent the neighbors from spying on their illegal card games. Satrapi is struck by a slogan on a wall: "To die a martyr is to inject blood into the veins of society." The book ends when Satrapi is sent off by her parents to Austria, where she will find herself free but utterly alone. (A sequel about this excruciating...
...SAFEWAY.COM The prices match the Safeway stores' (you can even use your club card), and regular shoppers of this chain will find the site comfortingly familiar. Fragile items like eggs and fruit arrived in perfect condition, and the store made sensible substitutions for out-of-stock items. Deliveries are scheduled in 2-hr. blocks between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. The delivery fee is $9.95, or $4.95 for purchases of $150 or more...
...through No. 6 spots. But this year’s Crimson team is far deeper, even with Martire’s injury. Wang and Anderson have been on a roll, and Bajin had been, too, prior to her injury. Minh, at No. 6 for Harvard, is the wild card for Harvard—she has yet to play a singles match this spring...
VIETNAM Decks containing only the ace of spades were passed out to U.S. troops. They would display a card on their helmets to scare away the Viet Cong, who were thought to be superstitious about the card because fortune tellers considered it a harbinger of suffering and death. In this year's Iraqi deck, the ace of spades is--who else? Saddam Hussein...
GULF WAR II The U.S. Playing Card Co., based in Cincinnati, Ohio, won the exclusive rights to manufacture the authentic decks when the Pentagon inadvertently included the company's trademarked red-and-yellow Hoyle joker...