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Eleanor Barkhorn - Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel. She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.

13 Glorious Facial Expressions From the National Spelling Bee

By Eleanor Barkhorn
Jun 3 2011, 8:00 AM ET Comment

"C-Y-M-O-T-R-I-C-H-O-U-S," Sukanya Roy, a 14-year-old eighth grader from Pennsylvania, spelled out to win the 84th Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. The winning word, which means "having wavy hair," marked the end of a grueling final round of competition, where the last five contestants spelled 21 consecutive words correctly.

It was a dramatic end to the bee, but it wasn't the event's only intense moment. Throughout the two days of competition, the students who participated showed a range of human emotion, from joy to concentration to boredom to despair. Here, a look at some of the bee's most glorious facial expressions:



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