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...real bitch of a summer for Gossip Guy. His lame hometown internship had him working 80-hour weeks copying lies and stapling rumors, while an early June nap in the sun left his innuendo red and peeling for the next two months...
...foreign organization. Little can be done without the help of a law firm that understands the local business customs--like meeting etiquette--that can baffle an American. Just ask Domenikos. During his discussions with NTT, it was not uncommon for the firm's high-ranking executives to nap around the boardroom table, leaving underlings to flesh out the deal's specifics, from the budget to the duration of the contract. Cross-border deals are also riskier. "A deal isn't a deal until money changes hands," Domenikos says...
...darkness toward the Shah-i-Kot Valley in eastern Afghanistan, the dim cabin lights cast pink and purple shadows on Perez and his fellow infantrymen from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Some chattered about the fight to come, while others managed to catch a last-minute nap. Perez was far away, hugging a baby he had never met. It was early March, and the 30-year-old staff sergeant had seen only a grainy Internet picture of his only son, Ramiro, born just 10 weeks before. Perez wondered what Ramiro was doing. He wondered what would happen...
...Shah, 16, plops down her books, shakes out her hair and heads upstairs to watch some TV. She switches the set in her parents' bedroom to Roswell and kicks her younger brother and sister off the couch. "Teenage aliens with identity crises," grumbles her mother, who is trying to nap on the bed. "What nonsense...
When Khatol returns home from work, she sometimes takes a nap on her bed, still wearing her uniform. Other times she relaxes in the living room, surrounded by colorful bouquets of paper flowers sent by well wishers. She likes to watch an old black-and-white Soviet-made TV that she borrows from friends, especially "fighting films" with Jackie Chan and Jean-Claude Van Damme. But mostly she frets about the future of women like her sister Lailama, who will find it difficult to make up for the time lost under the Taliban. "There's no difference between the Taliban...