Word: copely
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...games" to play in the street. But within days, her uncle is taken back to prison and executed. The family friend is found drowned in his bathtub. Satrapi's non-religious French school is shut down and she is sent to an all-girls school. All the while, people cope by living in the small cracks in the system. It is in these cracks that Persepolis shines. When Satrapi and her friends are handed veils to wear, they tie them together to make a jump rope. From her parents' vacation to Turkey, she asks them to bring back forbidden tokens...
...help students cope with the costs of health care, the office of the Provost and Vice President for finance Ann E. Berman say they will establish a “hardship fund.” The fund will be distributed on a case-by-case basis next year...
...isolate Taiwan from the international community by preventing it from participating in global forums and organizations. China, a United Nations Security Council member, has even kept Taiwan out of the WHO, which is a U.N. agency. Beijing initially refused to allow the WHO to send teams to help Taiwan cope with SARS?a move that arguably kept the island's medical workers dangerously in the dark on the best methods of disease containment. "China has told the world that they are taking care of us," says Taiwan's Premier Yu Shyi-kun. "It's a shameless...
...than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your...
...hepatitis B ravage the countryside, infant mortality is creeping upward after decades in decline?and now, with millions of migrant workers leaving their jobs in cities and streaming back to the hinterlands to escape SARS, it seems inevitable that some will infect villagers in places least able to cope with a medical crisis. If that happens, China and the world could lose a chance to eradicate a disease that has already killed 235 and infected 4,884 people in the mainland. "The state of the rural health-care system is like SARS," says Ray Yip, senior project officer at UNICEF...