Later, the Syrian businessmen posed for cameras as they handed out coats to smiling children.

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He posed with smiling Inuit children, took the controls of a submarine and stood on the deck of a frigate as three fighter aircraft roared over Frobisher Bay in a military exercise dubbed Operation Nanook.

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Seeing the smiling faces of the men, women, and children make for a lifetime of unforgettable memories.

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Creating what Mr. Levick calls a "war of pictures, " the site is replete with images meant to appeal to Americans: smiling Kuwaiti families wearing T-shirts and baseball caps, cute children passing out yellow ribbons.

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This 2009 YouTube photo compilation shows Syria's first lady helping old people and sick children, sitting in classrooms, planting trees, waving and smiling alongside her husband.

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We follow the aging of the Carati parents and the progress of their four children above all, of Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio), smiling and slightly guarded, who grows up to be a psychologist, and of his handsome brother Matteo (Alessio Boni), whose rage for order finds him joining the police.

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