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...says one sergeant. "We do our job and think of chow after. They want to break for chow as quickly as possible." But the Americans also sympathize with the Iraqis' complaints that they can't stand up to anyone with such shoddy equipment. "They don't have their own flak jackets--the fastest ones get them, the rest go without," says one U.S. adviser. "Their weapons are old and unreliable." As a result, says another adviser, "when they go out with us they feel like amateurs. It's s___ for morale...
...receive flak from friends or acquaintances because you worked on the Nader campaign...
...aware of the divide. The U.S. is joked about, but it is hardly unique: like one big happy family, we make fun of all countries present! Besides, we try not to cross the line—a group e-mail that poked fun at Americans last semester drew much flak for its insensitivity. The few Americans in Woodbridge (there are two, to my knowledge) seem genuinely to have fun and get along with everyone else. If Americans aren’t being made to feel unwelcome at “international” events, then where does the undeniable...
...another era--say, four years ago--a lefty network might have saved a little of its sting for the center-right of the Democratic Party. Bill Clinton got nearly as much flak from the disaffiliated left as from the entrenched right. But Air America's hosts, who range from centrist-left (Franken) to Pacifica pink (morning-drive-time japer Marc Maron), are forthrightly partisan. In their zeal to defeat Bush, they seek out strategic allies rather than ideological ones. Thus Randi Rhodes, the hectoring, cocksure afternoon-drive-time host, cuddled up to the right-wing Patrick Buchanan--who opposed...
...part of attending Harvard, a college unmatched in its regional diversity, is representing one’s own home state. As an Alabamian, I’ve caught my share of flak thanks to its clichéd backwardness, Ten Commandments ex-judge Roy Moore and bottom-feeding position out of 49 states (God bless ye, Mississippi) in just about every indicator of statewide health...