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...although it's not uncommon to see pairs of shivering Filipinos in heavy jackets walking on the streets of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Nor is it uncommon to hear Sakhaliners muttering darkly about how unwanted migrants have brought crime and disease, and have driven down the wages of native workers. Locals complain that the workers from abroad will be a drain on the island's welfare system. "We worry that they will stay here and exploit our infrastructure," says Svetlana Soldakina, a local activist. "It's not that our island is unfriendly, but our city will burst...
...battalion commanders--and even captains and lieutenants--are also taking on responsibilities as diplomats, politicians, development consultants, educators. The limited number of American civilians (and the virtual absence of Europeans) has thrown all the responsibility of nation building--more accurately, community building--on the U.S. military. And rather than complain, the soldiers do it willingly and even cheerfully, and with remarkable competence...
Even members of other Shi'ite parties that form the dominant block in parliament routinely complain that they are shut out by the Prime Minister and his coterie. A faction of his own Dawa Party, led by his predecessor Ibrahim al-Jaafari, has begun quietly to seek a new Shi'ite-Kurdish alliance that would eject Maliki. And another former prime minister, Iyad Allawi, is trying to cobble together a secular-Sunni alliance that would put Allawi back...
...Paktiawal, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department in Kabul says most of the thanks should go to improved policing. "Our police are getting better day by day," he says. "They are more equipped now than before and they have become more active." Whatever the cause, few Afghans will complain if suicide bombers there continue to take only their own lives. With reporting by Ali Safi/Kabul
Though the Saudi economy is dependent on their skills, foreigners are not above the scrutiny of the mutaween, either. The religious police have raided Westerners' home churches (formal churches are forbidden in the Kingdom) to break up Christian services. Foreign residents complain of other incidents in which they have been singled out, including the case of a 25-year-old Mongolian woman who was accosted at a glitzy Riyadh shopping mall. Although the woman was clad in an abaya, a full-length black gown, a gesticulating mutawwa seemed bothered that her face and ankles were not covered, too. He shoved...