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Best not to bother Dan Maccallum on Grand Prix day. On March 16, as the cars lined up on the grid in Melbourne, the Sydney solicitor and father of two began his season's viewing in exactly the way he has always done: no one but him in the house, and a large Supreme pizza delivered just before the start of the race. "I was rude to my family in the morning," he says. "I reminded them that they'd promised to go away for a couple of hours in the afternoon." What does he love about F1? Screaming engines...
...Roza gives Chris the adventure he craves, her stories sparking what he calls a "buzzing in my groin." She speaks of her tough upbringing in Belgrade with her one-eyed father, a decorated communist hero who cut off the fingers of several Croats. She becomes the counterpoint to everything middle-class and politically correct, comparing Albanians to apes and taunting Chris with accounts of her sexual exploits. He breathes in every detail as fodder for his fantasies. "I only wanted to sleep with her, really, but when you're fascinated by a woman you'll settle for her stories...
...protection from Sunni terrorists and civic services like medical clinics and free schools. Their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, has called for nationwide protests, and his supporters have clashed with Iraqi and American forces in several cities. Security forces are bracing for massive protests in Sadr City, named after his father, a revered cleric murdered by Saddam Hussein's regime...
...makes me wet." But in spite of all the Western consumer bliss, Stefan admits that there is one thing he misses: "My mother used to sing me a song every night before I went to sleep. I used to sleep in one bed with my mother and my father, because we had no space." Now Stefan sleeps alone...
...Wahedi, contact with any Israeli had always been traumatic. He says that his father, an ambulance driver, was clearing away wounded Palestinians after a battle when he was shot dead by an Israeli sniper. And his 16-year-old brother was killed by a stray piece of shrapnel from an Israeli rocket attack on a passing car driven by a suspected militant...