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Lying on a beaten-up hospital bed with two bullets in his right leg, Amar Ali Najim has plenty to complain about. A few hours earlier, the Baghdad policeman had responded to reports that a gang of thieves was menacing a market. Arriving on the scene, Najim and his colleagues walked straight into a trap, presumably set by the gunmen who shot him and two other cops. But even in his current state, immobile and connected to an intravenous drip, Najim, 37, is upbeat. Things in Iraq are getting better, he says: "The violence has dropped by half. We still...
...time before the Americans came. It was just after curfew on the night of June 22, ten weeks after Saddam Hussein's fall, when he heard a helicopter overhead, the humvees in the street outside, the knock at the door. U.S. soldiers came rushing into the house, broke his bed, searched everywhere, then put a blindfold on him and drove him away...
...fast as she can. She has narrowly escaped with her wallet intact, and it wasn't easy. Her daughter Kelsey, 10, was enthralled by absolutely everything in the store--the sequined lampshades, the frilly fairy pillows, the rugs, the window coverings and, most of all, the pink canopy bed. "Whew! I really had to get them out of there quick," says Robertson...
...reasons, everything will look great with her daughter's pink-and-yellow flowered comforter from Company Kids and the new desk from PBKids (part of Pottery Barn). "When I was growing up, I had to share with my four sisters and a brother. I was lucky to have a bed!" she says, exaggerating just...
...each month. I quickly began to ponder one tough math problem: If we get home from work at 6 p.m., and we set aside time for piano practice, dinner, bath, a dollop of casual chitchat and all that homework, how do we get our daughter to bed by 8 p.m. for a good night's sleep? Answer: It can't be done...