Word: urban
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These are the men in the middle now. Warrant Officer Kamal Aziz, a 29-year veteran of the Saddam-era police corps, spent a few weeks retraining last May, learning American-style arrest techniques and the basic art of urban warfare. "It was almost the same training as we had before," he says, standing guard outside the Yarmuk police station in west Baghdad. But now that stations like his are top targets for insurgents fighting the U.S. occupation, he says, "the challenge is bigger." A few men at his station wear borrowed U.S. body armor, but many have...
...issue is the fiscal relationship and the adequacy of Harvard (and MIT’s) payments for urban services ranging from police and fire protection to streets and public health...
Large or small, urban B&Bs almost always have one thing in common: personal service. An innkeeper can get to know you and over time develop a sense of what you like and don't like. Yes, at a large hotel there is a record of your last visit and whether you lodged a complaint, but that's altogether different from arriving in a city and finding someone who remembers you and your taste in art or food or wine. Barry Knox, 63, a retired investment banker from New Canaan, Conn., says everyone knows him when he walks...
...Urban Adventure A bed-and-breakfast in the city provides quaintness and pampering in a vibrant milieu...
...other stuff, the games and the "talking" and the God knows what else, it doesn't scare her. It's an urban campus, she points out, in a busy downtown neighborhood. "They don't have a street corner where all the kids can hang out. Inside the computer is their street corner." She compares it to listening to the Grateful Dead when she was growing up in the 1970s, back when rock 'n' roll was still new and computers were safely confined to the fallout shelter. After all, she argues, all teenagers of every era have something that they...