For instance, it was common for Jagr to leave his Upper West Side apartment in the evening and drive to the MSG Training Center in Greenburgh to hone his stick-handling and shooting skills after already having practiced with the team earlier in the day.
Hamasa Zaki, a plucky 19-year-old, started out in the call center but within two years has worked her way up to handling 30 accounts across Heraat, Bamiyan and Kabul.
To pay the fees, she worked at a call center on the 7 p.m. to 4 a.m. shift, handling questions from Canadians about their mortgages and supervising a team of employees, friends and family said.