Word: complained
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...typical siblings, "not fair" is the reality, when it comes to one child being treated differently from the other. Martin Bounds has one autistic child, Charlie, 13, and one typical child, Alex, 15, about whom Bounds says, "He'd get very upset when he would bump his knee or complain of feeling sick. He thought we weren't sufficiently concerned about him, in the spirit of 'I could be over here dying, and all you care about is Charlie...
...debate on whether justice is applied equally to foreigners and Nicaraguans, and to rich and poor. The decision to free Volz and not Chamorro seems to have divided people along class lines, with most expatriates and wealthier Nicaraguans applauding the decision. The vast majority of poor Nicaraguans, however, complain that it is another case of the rich getting away with murder...
...have been based on his American identity, and, even more predictably, on his status as a Harvard student, instead of the music itself. Since the video’s release, Baek has come across several blog sites saying that he should just stick to being a student, while others complain about the fact that he will probably never serve in the South Korean army...
...almighty FOP gods saw through my feeble attempts at dissembling, I was placed on an advanced trip in what my group leader called a “big mistake” when I approached him to complain. I had no backpack, no head lamp—I didn’t even have a North Face fleece. My new groupmates looked at me, distant but curious. There was the ripped marathon runner, the guy who described his backyard as a “wilderness” he tamed for fun, and the girl who had spent her summer on some...
...Axis of Evil gets most of its mileage out of sending up the paranoid American stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims. Ahmed Ahmed, who is an Egyptian-American, likes to complain about how hard it is to pass through airport security because a well-known terrorist shares the same name. If dubious airline officials ask him to prove he's a comedian by telling a joke, Ahmed responds: "Um, I just graduated from flight school?" When that joke bombs (sorry!), he consoles himself with the thought of how frustrated the other Ahmed must get when people mistake him for a comedian...