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...first months after the war, the British media made a great deal of the contrasts between the British and American areas of control. While American soldiers were dealing with a nascent insurgency in Baghdad, forced to wear full body armor (when available) and shelter behind high blast walls, their British counterparts were patrolling Basra in soft caps and smilingly accepting cups of tea from roadside vendors. This bonhomie was claimed to be the result of that superior understanding of Iraqi culture. Never mind that managing mostly Shi'ite Basra was a picnic compared to running the much more heterogeneous...
...untrue,” but he later declined to confirm or deny Bakshi’s account. Bakshi said that Zimbabwean officers first threw him into a solitary cell and then moved him into a larger facility with 120 other detainees. He said the prisoners were not allowed to wear shoes, go outside, or use a proper restroom.Although Bakshi said that officials from the United States embassy in Harare brought him meals, he said the other detainees only received food every one or two days. He said that some of the other detainees had been held for over a week...
...also thinks improved technology will help, but she points to low-tech solutions as well. Some companies, she notes, give employees DO NOT INTERRUPT screens to put over their cubicles or establish quiet times when it's not permissible to bother a colleague. In some offices, she says, "workers wear colored hats to signify when they do and do not want to be interrupted." Another simple trick, suggests Spira, is to leave more explicit instructions on e-mail "away messages" and answering machines about how and when you prefer to be interrupted...
Bakshi said that Zimbabwean officers first threw him into a solitary cell and then moved him into a larger facility with 120 other detainees. He said the prisoners were not allowed to wear shoes, go outside, or use a proper restroom...
...people to play tennis in China, we always got new outfits," recalls Zheng, now 22, who nabbed her first Women's Tennis Association (WTA) singles and doubles titles in Hobart, Australia, last year. "China was poor back then, so we loved tennis because it gave us a chance to wear cool clothes...