"A wide collar can broaden a narrow neck and face by drawing the eye outward, " says Mr. Julian.

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As American military vehicles and troops start to arrive in Bosnia -- taking a 30-kilometer (20-mile) road toward Tuzla that they've dubbed "Route Arizona" -- some are setting up a series of small bases in the Posavina Corridor, a narrow neck of land connecting Serb territories in eastern and western Bosnia.

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Denton is tall and rangy, and has a famously large head that sits precariously on a thin neck and narrow shoulders, leaving the impression of an evolved brain that is perhaps a little too conscious of its pedestrian context.

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Bringing the shoulder area closer to the neck helped accommodate narrow female shoulders and opens the area around the armpits.

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"This is pretty spectacular, " he said, craning his neck to gaze up at the rock faces after emerging from a narrow pathway into a sun-splashed plaza in front of the grand Treasury.

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His latest offer of cuts is designed to make a specific argument - that he is willing to go the extra mile, to stick his neck out, but that his opponents are so entrenched in their narrow political foxhole that they would rather cause another economic crisis than make a single compromise.

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