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...simple Riyadh residence of Salman al-Huraisi, a 28-year-old hotel security guard. The policemen stormed into the house, breaking down doors, tearing through personal belongings and crying, "God is great!" Then they arrested al-Huraisi, along with 10 other family members. His alleged crime: consuming and selling beer...
...Anfoe, I saw a microcosm of foreign aid failure. But I also saw what it takes to build success. While the visiting sailors made themselves into piñatas, the long-term development workers were meeting with the village headman. Over Guinness and Ghana’s local Star beer, they had a leisurely conversation about the village’s needs. They floated a few proposals, listened to his feedback. It was one of their many visits to the village...
Patients are those for whom good, young doctors forgo happy nights of beer and dancing. Patients are the ones great nurses worry about, sit up with and linger to take care of, when they could be home with their kids. We continue to study the journals and the books for patients, even when we're 60 and can barely see the words on a page anymore. We take them on knowing they won't pay a dime, knowing they're going to complain, knowing their prognosis stinks. We know how vulnerable patients are - that they literally lie open...
...agreeing with my twenty-something Argentine peers by simply opposing the war in Iraq or Bush’s disregard for an Argentina on the brink of collapse in 2001 doesn’t redeem me in their eyes. Engaged in an Argentine-beer-fueled, late-night debate about the evils of the U.S.’s foreign policy, I explained that I had voted against Bush in 2004, and that I would be happier to see him go than most. The Argentines present weren’t placated. “He’s ruining your country...
...drinking a beer, waiting for my friends…listening to the frequency. I heard a noise from far away, and at first I thought it was just normal traffic, or someone had crashed their car. But suddenly people came running through, shouting ‘come, come, a plane crashed.’ When we got close and saw the scene, the plane in flames and smoke, the eight of us were paralyzed...