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Smart people, says a woman I will call Layla, who quit her $2-a-month office job because it wasn't worth getting up in the morning, know they have to go. Smart people, she says, want to live. Layla has a Malaysian-cloned computer in her house, paid for by her brother in Florida. In the past year, Iraqis have been permitted to buy up-to-date computers if they have the cash. Layla can e-mail her brother, but she can't surf the Net: ordinary citizens are not allowed...
...shops outside are full of fat oranges, Pepsi, Pringles chips, but Layla's friends without brothers abroad can't afford any of that. Some must sell off a portion of their meager monthly food ration to buy medicine. Imported medicines are smuggled in through the embargo-busting trade with Jordan and the Emirates, but only the rich can buy those. The poor get cheap pills from "private" Iraqi drug companies that "never, ever work," says a pharmacist in the posh Al-Mansur district...
...When Layla Cable finally coaxed the Japanese magnolia on the border of her property to grow about ten years ago, she discovered that she was terribly allergic to the flowers...
...Layla Cable says she feels a similar nagging regret of a missed opportunity at friendship, particularly after hearing poignant anecdotes from Jenkins’ friends at the Monday night service...
...have been pinned on George's increasing assertiveness as a songwriter and increasing inability to get along with Paul. George was the colorless Beatle, the dubious target of allegations of plagiarism, the man whose wife so cruelly inspired his lovestruck best friend Eric Clapton to write “Layla.” (And when the couple divorced and Clapton married Patti Harrison, who could not help but feel that the better man had finally...