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Restored to her job as director of physical training for the air force, the energetic Khatol, who is in her early 40s ("A lady doesn't tell her age," she says), has to make sure soldiers stay in shape. But after 22 years of war, things are in such disarray that the force simply is not equipped for the usual drills. Some soldiers don't have shoes to wear. Government coffers are nearly empty, and salaries have not been paid for months. In early July Khatol spent the better part of her days hounding officials in the Defense Ministry...
...good news for Raffarin is that even though France's social and labor terrain is heavily mined, his majority may be able to use its five-year term to put its reforms into place gradually?and ride out any waves of protest. With the leftist opposition in disarray after its electoral trouncing last June, Raffarin's stiffest challenge may come from the European Union: its requirement that budget deficits steadily come down will be tough during an economic slump, especially if Raffarin cuts taxes without shrinking the public sector. That's an economic equation studded with contradiction and conflict?qualities...
...worthwhile American Dream stumbled to a halt without first exposing its dark side. Elvis, despite his tremendous success, is generally believed to have been a depressive, even, it has been suggested, manic-depressive, or bipolar. When he died in 1977 from a cardiac arrhythmia, his finances were in wild disarray, he was overweight and (it is believed) he had been abusing alcohol and prescription drugs for years. His private life was also a mess; his marriage to Priscilla Presley had hit the rocks four years earlier...
NEWMAN: The gait is very uneven. Just try to hit a mark on a camel. We were all in terrible disarray...
Three years ago, the personnel director of a New York City bank began to notice that things weren't quite right at her 85-year-old mother's home in Connecticut. "The house was in total disarray," she recalls. "There were piles of unopened mail stuffed everywhere, with bills months old and unpaid. But she was writing checks to buy magazines and knickknacks to enter sweepstakes...