Question

An image of a broken pencil of “today” turning into two sharpened pencils of “tomorrow” circulated after a terrorist attack against this company that prompted Teju Cole to write the essay “Unmournable Bodies.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this satirical magazine whose Paris office was attacked in 2015 due to its provocative depictions of Muhammad.
ANSWER: Charlie Hebdo [or Charlie Weekly] (The pencil illustration was created by Lucille Clerc.)
[10e] Cole deems victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack to be “mournable,” unlike those killed by these aircraft “in Pakistan and elsewhere.” Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in 2022 by one of these unmanned aircraft.
ANSWER: drones [or unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs; accept drone strikes]
[10h] Cole compares “natural and incontestable” deaths by drone strikes to the death of this 16th-century Italian miller, who is the subject of Carlo Ginzburg’s microhistory The Cheese and the Worms.
ANSWER: Menocchio [or Domenico Scandella]
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2023 ARCADIA at DukeEmory, Duke, YaleY417.5075%100%0%
2023 ARCADIA at EmoryEmory, Duke, YaleY420.00100%100%0%
2023 ARCADIA at ImperialImperialY524.00100%100%40%
2023 ARCADIA at MarylandMaryland, OnlineY316.67100%67%0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio StateOhio State, TexasY320.00100%100%0%
2023 ARCADIA OnlineMaryland, OnlineY320.00100%100%0%
2023 ARCADIA at TexasOhio State, TexasY323.33100%100%33%

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