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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.
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NBA Finals Recap, as Told by LeBron James's Facial Expressions

By Eleanor Barkhorn

Jun 13 2011, 9:30 AM ET Comment

The Dallas Mavericks won their first NBA championship Sunday night, defeating the heavily favored Miami Heat, 105-95, in Game Six of the Finals. It was a big upset for the Mavericks, who were expected to lose the series to hyped super-team the Heat and their highly paid star trio, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh.

The clearest way to see the arc of the series is to watch how Heat superstar LeBron James's facial expressions evolved from start to finish. He went into the Finals full of confidence and swagger, and ended the series looking chastened and distressed:



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