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...persecution may have actually helped Khodorkovsky's image in the eyes of ordinary Russians. Unlike other oligarchs who went abroad with the billions they'd amassed during the Yeltsin years, the Yukos tycoon returned to face a trial widely viewed as crooked, and ultimately prison. In many an eye, that may have transformed him from yet another sleazy oligarch into the latter-day equivalent of that Soviet-era icon of dissent: a prisoner of conscience. "The Kremlin has done free campaigning for him," quips legislator Alexei Mitrophanov...
...film also raises questions about globalization, specifically about how American culture is received abroad. The many cultural and value exchanges between the American females and their Afghan students are humorous and telling. Each hairdresser brings her own ideas of beauty and freedom to the classroom and tells her students to use their power to transform their country. Whether this is imposing superficial American materialism or empowering the Afghan women is not obvious, despite the film’s optimistic overtone...
Then Cedric Hampton comes to visit. A distant relation of Lord Montdore, Cedric has lived abroad his entire life and English society awaits his arrival with intense curiosity and vague superiority. When Cedric does arrive, he manages to charm everyone. No one seems to mind that he is flamboyantly homosexual, least of all Lady Montdore...
...marriage takes place, much to everyone’s dismay, and Polly and Boy head abroad to live in poverty and social exile. Lady Montdore is left embittered and bored...
...Iraq war, "Was It Worth It?" [March 27]. While the question may not have immediate relevance to our policy options in Iraq, it provides an important framework to evaluate future actions. I was disturbed, however, that none of the experts you gathered weighed the cost of the war abroad against investments at home. Had the U.S. taken the billions of dollars spent on the war and instead invested in a moon-shot-style program to gain energy independence, would such a war even have been necessary? What about investments in education and port security, and in shoring up Social Security...