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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...
...this ban, do as I did all too often in New York this summer, go out for a beer and talk to them. What they’ll tell you is business, particularly late-night business, is down and so are tips. They’ll tell you neighbors complain about the noise from smokers outside and piles of cigarette butts they leave behind. And they’ll tell you how many customers say they are going out for a smoke and skip...
Eskander doesn’t complain about the meeting, or the fact that she will have three meetings on Sunday, or the fact that she will start her 5 class schedule on Monday morning before returning to Dorchester to tutor. Complaining is a foreign concept to Eskander...
...more than seniors who would moan and groan about the difficulties they faced deciding what to do after graduation. (Actually, one thing was more irksome: seniors who started tedious and patronizing anecdotes with the phrase, “When I was a freshman.”) How anyone could complain about a future that included cable television and never again having to eat off dining hall trays totally baffled me. Now, of course, the future seems rather more daunting...
...this ban, do as I did all too often in New York this summer, go out for a beer and talk to them. What they’ll tell you is business, particularly late-night business, is down and so are tips. They’ll tell you neighbors complain about the noise from smokers outside and piles of cigarette butts they leave behind. And they’ll tell you how many customers say they are going out for a smoke and skip...