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What's inside the Putin doll? Russian craftsmen have long since satirized their politicians by painting their likeness onto traditional hollow "matryoshka" dolls, each of which houses a smaller doll in descending sequence. And where cynics might have expected to find the likeness of arch-oligarch Boris Berezovsky inside a doll representing the president he helped bring to power, Putin may instead contain figures unpalatable to the media tycoon. Indeed, the new president's campaign against some of the other oligarchs - politically powerful billionaires who, like Berezovsky, accumulated their fortunes by questionable means in the Wild West early years...
...trailer for herself. Like the ads for a summer action flick, her public persona promises slick, sweaty thrills: At the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards she wore a tiny purple pastie over her otherwise exposed left breast; in the latest Vibe she poses like a plastic blow-up doll, her lips parted suggestively to form a moist pink oval. Unfortunately, behind the getups and the come-ons, the reality is grim: Lil' Kim's new rap album, Notorious KIM (Queen Bee/Undeas/Atlantic), is a bomb. It's the Battlefield Earth of this summer's rap albums...
...campus. And nearly every kid takes home a box of food each month along with toothpaste, shampoo, socks and underwear--all donated by Phoenix residents. Once a month, Pappas holds birthday parties replete with clowns, cake and a closetful of new toys from which honorees can pick a doll or racing...
Doris Dillon knew she wanted to be a teacher from the moment she was named library monitor in third grade. For years she practiced on every doll, stuffed animal and family pet. When she graduated to real elementary school students, so deftly did she zero in on each child's learning style that it was said she could "teach a rock to read." Parents pleaded to have their children placed in her classes. Colleagues copied her methods. For hundreds of schoolkids in San Jose, Calif., Mrs. Dillon embodied some of their favorite fictional characters--Miss Rumphius, Ms. Frizzle...
...disgracing his own family and the entire nation through his perpetual distortions of the truth. A man who lies under oath and cheats on his wife with a woman half his age is a far worse role model for American youth, male and female, than a well-proportioned doll. Mattel's efforts to foster a sense of achievement and self-worth among young girls should be applauded...