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Catalano said that HUPD believes “valid complaints” means “any complaint about criminal activity...
...take off from Sunan bound for Iran, according to U.S. government sources. But of greater concern was the size and shape of the crates, which indicated their contents. "It was cruise missiles," says an official in the Bush Administration. So sure was Washington of the jets' cargo that a complaint was lodged with China, which had allowed the flights to traverse its airspace to reach Iran...
...commuter trains is more than 10 minutes late, signs at major rail terminals have a column for what platform a train will arrive on, one for what time it's scheduled to arrive, and one labeled ritardo: how late the train will be. That's indicative of the biggest complaint: European railroads are run haphazardly by bloated monopolies immune to the concept of service. Rail freight still only moves around Europe today at an average of 18 km/h; even George Stephenson managed to go faster on some stretches of his maiden run 178 years ago. And passengers sometimes...
...time in Europe when the cutting gibe was a respected weapon in political discourse. Lady Astor, Winston Churchill's nemesis, once said to him: "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee." Churchill didn't demand an apology or file a human-rights complaint. He just shot back: "And if I were your husband I would drink it." But these days we get the insult without the art, and so we respond with self-righteous outrage. Last week, when a German Member of the European Parliament goaded Silvio Berlusconi about the immunity law he had passed...
Queen said he felt the lone complaint carried the weight of many...