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After reading your story, I felt a bit sick. How can people getting $50,000, $60,000 or $70,000 a year whine that they can't make ends meet? I think those earning that much shouldn't complain; they should just stop spending a lot on unnecessary items. There are thousands of us in America who could live very comfortably on such an income. Try living on $24,000 a year with no raise! KATHLEEN TEWKSBURY Avon...
...growth, they fear that unfettered freedom of movement would inundate cities with refugees from the poverty-stricken countryside. Additionally, the C.-and-R. apparatus provides a convenient way for the authorities to deal with all kinds of undesirables. Those who travel to Beijing to petition the central government or complain of local corruption, for example, often fall into its clutches. "Since China has no mechanism or judicial body to ensure its government policies adhere to its own laws," says a legal scholar in Beijing who asks not to be identified, "nothing will change until someone at the very top wants...
...There's no doubt in my mind that crime is increasing," says Major Loy Majeed, the assistant chief of the Bayaa police station in southwest Baghdad. "Now we get reports of five, six, seven killings in a night, and all we can do is write it down." Police officers complain that patrol cars have been stolen in broad daylight and that their small-caliber pistols are no match for the heavy weapons toted by criminals. The city coroner in Baghdad says he has seen 15 to 25 corpses a day since April, most from gunshot wounds. (Last week three schoolgirls...
...telling that to the cops at the Bayaa police station in southwest Baghdad, a decrepit, filthy office so badly looted after the war that if local residents want to file a crime report, they have to write it down on their own paper. The dozen or so policemen there complain about their pay ($20 for the past month), their lack of firepower and patrol cars, even the look of the new uniforms. "It's like we're schoolboys," says 2nd Lieut. Khalil Kamar Rashid. The U.S. and the residents of Baghdad need them to grow up in a hurry...
Recently, members e-mailed Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby to complain when they noticed that there were no women chairing the committees formed last fall to review all aspects of the undergraduate curriculum...