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...Take the cover image, for example. It depicts a scene in the book where Delisle visits the "Children's Palace," a school for gifted children. He depicts row upon row of near identical girls playing an accordion concert with rictus grins across their face, "as though the thin veneer of their smiles were proof that these young prodigies were flourishing here." Yes it looks horrible, but no more so than one of those frightening children's beauty contests made popular in the southern U.S. Or on a broader scale, Delisle does an outstanding job of depicting North Korea's relentless...
...their families on less than $20,000 a year. Faced with a choice of spending their limited funds on rent or for an oral checkup, most students forego a trip to the dentist and hope that problems will not arise or can be ignored. If their luck wears thin during their long years as a graduate student, their options were, until recently, limited. They could join their fellow students who accrue thousands of dollars of long-term dental debt, resort to dental clinics for Medicaid recipients, or pop pain killers between classes for months to ward off tooth pain...
When the offense dragged in most of the game, the team fell back on its defense, which held up despite a thin secondary. The pass rush kept O’Neil from finding his rhythm, with the notable exception of a third-quarter drive in which he completed seven consecutive passes for 53 total yards...
...areas, but above all offer deep, engaging arguments. Former History 10a student Amelia E. Atlas ’06 said that “with a coursepack full of five-page excerpts, it’s impossible to glean any in-depth meaning from a curriculum already spread too thin...
Although U.S. officers had known for months about the atrocities taking place in Tall 'Afar, they were powerless to do anything about them. Stretched thin fighting rebels in places like al-Qaim and Mosul, the military dedicated just a single infantry battalion to an area twice the size of Connecticut. In May, however, more than 4,000 troops of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, a unit with a unique combination of tanks, Bradleys and helicopters that is back for its second tour in Iraq, were hastily rerouted from the south to the Tall 'Afar region, where they began disrupting...