Word: respectibility
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Numbering Iraqis seems like branding to me. Actions like this can't win the hearts and minds of the people. U.S. forces should respect Muslim religious and cultural tenets prohibiting men from touching women. If the troops need to write numbers on women, they should have female soldiers...
WHEN I FIRST TRAVELED TO THE KURDISH north in August 2004 to escape the heat and violence of Baghdad, the so-called Switzerland of Iraq was disappointing in one respect: summers on the high plains of Arbil are almost as scorching. Otherwise, Kurdistan was a refuge. In Baghdad, journalists had begun hiring security entourages and erecting guarded compounds. To the north in Arbil, as a visiting American, I was practically given the keys to the city. I did my reporting by foot or hailed taxis from the street, spent my evenings in beer gardens or pizza parlors, and slept...
...Moyo would not grant me permission to visit the toilet or brush my teeth without approval from their superiors. "I am just a worker," I heard the police-station chief say. "There are people above me." The jailers' anxiety about their bosses made them even more determined to demand respect from their prisoners. Moyo considered my demand for a lawyer insulting. "I am educated," he said. "And you do not cooperate." The walls of his office made clear that the regime saw the opposition less as a threat than an affront. The top crime on a list hanging above Moyo...
...basketball team has never won the Ivy League title or advanced to the NIT. The team’s sole NCAA appearance was in 1946.“If [Amaker] comes in, I’d expect instant toughness. We’re all going to respect him,” forward Evan K. Harris ’09 said. “I feel that might have been a hurdle to overcome if it was a coach...[with a track record] we hadn’t known about, but not with someone like him or someone like Jarvis...
...doctors have specialties, but it shouldn’t take the trained professionalism of a psychologist to treat patients with respect. Sure there are mental health services right upstairs, but is it too much to ask for something in between the gruff cop and the Buttsavitch? Something that is not quite the whispering receptionist for the psychiatrists on the fourth floor, and not quite the callous Urgent Care...