Word: complaints
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Lothar Bisky has a complaint. A retired professor in the former East German state of Brandenburg, he earned less than professors in West Germany did - and he'll get a smaller pension, too. But Bisky has a loud megaphone: today he's the chairman of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the heir to the former East German Communist Party. "All this discrimination harms the dignity of the people," he says - and his message resonates among voters in eastern Germany. With two state elections in the east this Sunday, the PDS is expected to perform better than at any time...
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU DIALED 311, THE QUESTION-AND-COMPLAINT HOTLINE YOU CREATED? A couple of weeks ago. Went banging over a pothole two days in a row on 79th Street...
...appetite for Hong Kong's idiosyncrasies is already whetted. He encounters a woman with bound feet, a waiter whose tongue was cut out by the Japanese as a punishment and a dentist whose recollections of wartime internment are so gruesome that Booth endures the drill without novocaine or complaint. He learns how to eat boiled beetles, polish ancestral bones during the Festival of Hungry Ghosts and speak rudimentary Cantonese. He spends long afternoons wandering around what was then a quiet city of green hills and mysterious alleys, catching geckos and digging up spent bullets?and, one scary day, the skeleton...
...submit to a "fundamentalist test." When he agreed, she lifted him off the ground. Krekar was outraged, grabbed a microphone and sputtered: "She is showing contempt for me." Rehman merely observed that "a man who can be carried by a woman can't be a fundamentalist." Krekar filed a complaint with police, but no charges were brought against Rehman. "The best thing about the mullah- lifting was that it clarified for Norwegians what their freedoms really are, what values they have," Rehman says. She's keenly aware of the threat she represents to conservative Islam, in Norway and throughout Europe...
Ralph Gilles is showing off his Chrysler 300C, and as he points out details like chrome accents on the door trim, he insists that he has just one complaint: "It doesn't come with dubs." In hip-hop car lingo, dubs are oversize, 20-in. wheels. And Gilles is a big-wheel guy. An amateur racer, he hits the track on weekends with his 10-cylinder Dodge Viper--a nerve-racking hobby for his wife, the mother of his two young kids. As soon as he got his 300C for street use, he supersized it with black dubs. "It looks...