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Silence isn't typical of Cairo cafes. Amid the blare of Arab pop music, the dice hitting the backgammon board and the clink of teacups on metal tables, just having an audible conversation can be tough. But these days dead silence from the patrons is not uncommon. In cafes with satellite TV, that hush comes every hour on the hour, when the news bulletin airs on the Qatari channel al-Jazeera, the pre-eminent Arab news network. At Cafe Lialina in the heart of downtown Cairo, the grisly footage of Palestinian corpses in the West Bank town of Jenin--mutilated...
...victims; other relatives commit 18% of the offenses. And the sad truth is that preventing incest is nearly impossible. Less than one-third of perpetrators know their victims from outside the home. But non-family abusers may be easier to pick out--many are adults who shower uncommon attention on children--and thus easier to stop...
Sara M. McKinley ’03 recognizes that some of her future goals are uncommon. As she sits in the Quincy dining hall, clad in a red T-shirt with the word “heartthrob” scrawled across her chest, she smiles broadly as she discusses some of her aspirations for senior year. She leans in slightly, with the posture of someone who is about to divulge a secret. Her brunette curls shake slightly as she speaks...
Without scholarships in football, athletes are free to leave the team with no financial penalty, and attrition is not uncommon in Ivy athletics...
...about an American family about whom bad things happen—and I wanted to produce strong feelings through this story of a family trying to suppress all feelings.” This description seems to suggest that Marcus’ new novel, Notable American Women, addresses a not uncommon subject in American fiction...