The poem reads like a celebration of existence itself, until that existence is abruptly ended in the final stanza: "Is it a crime to live in a country/where freedom/is hanged by the neck?" The country is Iran; the story is true; the girl was hanged for her feminine joie de vivre.
During the cold war, with the Soviet Union breathing down Finland's neck, the countries constructed a mix of allegiances and neutrality known as the Nordic balance.
Most polls in the past week have put the two main parties neck-and-neck, suggesting the country is heading for another hung parliament.
Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres and Taur Matan Ruak are neck-and-neck in the country, also known as Timor-Leste, after incumbent Jose Ramos-Horta was knocked out of the race in the first round of voting.
The Kurds' choice will be plainer, for there are few would-be election-wreckers in their neck of the country.
Watching the games on television, Catchings often wondered how it would feel to stand on the podium with a gold medal dangling from your neck and your country's national anthem being played.
Will these dams end up being a weight around the neck of the country's economy?
But clearly it is cuts in these federal taxes that have done much to sink the country neck deep in debt.
But with that line of work, called hostessing, among the most lucrative jobs available to women and with the country neck-deep in a recession, hostess positions are increasingly coveted, and hostesses themselves are gaining respectability and even acclaim.
There are several questionnaires available measuring NP that have been developed and published in English-speaking countries: Neck Disability Index (NDI) [ 3, 4], Neck Pain and Disability Scale (NPDS) [ 5], the Northwick Park Neck Pain Questionnaire (NPNPQ) [ 6], the Copenhagen Neck Functional Disability Scale (CDS) [ 7].
"More individual athletes will finish with a gold medal around their neck than any other country, if you want to look at it that way".
