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Recently, Faeza spoke with her sister, who is still in Baghdad. Samira said her teenage son had narrowly escaped being kidnapped from a street in their neighborhood. Faeza immediately grabbed her son and hugged him tightly. "When I see Khattab, this let me to stay here," she says in her broken English. "O.K., this is for Khattab. This is the future for Khattab...
Brown says that initially the plan was to reduce the contractor's take from 25% to a 4%-8% range, upon renewal of each contract. However, he says that officers spoke out and now the reduction is going to be more gradual, from 25% to 20%, and then to 10%. There will be cuts for the salary of checkpoint supervisors as well. "You are asking them to risk their lives and then cutting their salary down. It's not fair," says Brown, who regularly stops by his contractors' homes in the evening to sip small cups of sweet, hot Iraqi...
...interview with TIME shortly before the Iowa caucus, Thompson spoke of his long odds in the state and reminisced about his first Senate race in 1994, noting how his last-minute zigzagging across Tennessee took him from underdog to winner. "It's the way we campaigned in Tennessee, where we went from 20 points behind to 20 points ahead all in 20 days," Thompson said, adding that he planned to deploy the same kind of "focus campaigning" in Iowa...
...ties to the school system, regardless of what Simmons decides on the superintendent. “I feel that her experience both as a committee member and as a parent will give her a very good understanding and a deep level of commitment,” said McGovern, who spoke out against renewing Fowler-Finn’s contract in 2006. Simmons also said she would focus on building connections not only between branches of the city government but also between the council and the community, including Harvard. “I’d like to increase public awareness...
...library managers to theater and film directors. After Putin's eight-year rule, the majority of people will comply when Big Brother calls. For example, in Yekaterinburg on Wednesday, a crowd of students showed up outside the BC's office, demanding it closed. Sure enough, once the "vox populi" spoke, the Yekaterinburg BC branch shut down Thursday morning...