Word: necks
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...Victoria is pretty, very thin, 13 and loves to dance. She has been en pointe for a year. Hers is the collected smile, extended neck and slightly out-toeing gait of a serious ballerina. I can guess why she's in my office: her foot hurts. She walks without pain, goes to school, even gets through gym class pretty comfortably-but she can't dance. A big dance recital is coming up-dancers from the famous ballet company in the city will be there to watch her-and she wants to be "back to normal" by then...
...will be allowed one last phone call. He will be given a glass of water, a moment to pray and an opportunity to make a statement about his life and crimes. The entire event will be recorded on video to be stored in the Iraqi government archives. Then his neck will be slipped into the noose of a 2-in.-thick hemp rope. A few moments later, his life will...
...Iraq--at least when the equipment works. Since the Iraqi government reintroduced capital punishment in 2004, several executions have been beset by glitches and logistical snafus. At first, executioners used an old rope left over from Saddam's regime that stretched too much to break the condemned's neck; it sometimes took as long as eight minutes for the hanged to die. New ropes brought in for later executions jerked harder on the convicted person's spine, but executioners soon noticed the cords fraying on the bend of the reinforced steel installed in the cement ceiling of the gallows. During...
...oversee the execution, 30 cars ambushed them with gunmen firing PKC automatic weapons. After fighting their way through to the gallows, the executioners were surprised at how defiant Farid was as he faced his own death. When asked to verify his identity before they put the rope around his neck, Farid said, "That's me, so what." "That guy was ready to go to hell, I guess," says a government official...
...skin so much thicker than the rest of us. As Bush noted in his press conference on the day after the election, "This isn't my first rodeo." Or as my mother has always told me, "This business comes with a free head clipping. Every time you stick your neck out, they come around...