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...Olga Isakova waited on her first customers of the day, a man and his son who examined a bright blue-and-white nesting doll with curly blond hair and a heart-shaped mouth before putting it down and walking away. "My sales have fallen 10% to 20% since the fall," says Isakova. "I'm only selling the cheap stuff these days...
...value of the ruble, and Krytikova now makes only half of what she used to on each doll. "I love my work," she says. "When I die, I've told my sons that they should put up a matryoshka instead of a headstone. But if prices continue to fall, it will be useless for me to continue working...
Operation Khanjar - Pashto for "dagger" - is the first test of the Obama Administration's new strategy for Afghanistan. No longer treated as a concern secondary to Iraq, the Afghanistan theater will see the number of American soldiers serving there increase by 17,000 by this fall. And under McChrystal, they'll be waging a different kind of war. Limited troop availability in the past meant that while NATO forces could clear an area of insurgents, they were unable to hold the terrain. Now the plan is for the Marines to set up combat posts in villages to provide the residents...
...With Yudhoyono, a former three-star general and Indonesia's first directly elected President, in front with a commanding lead, the opposition is now warning that the election - the country's second free poll since the fall of strongman General Suharto in 1998 - will be fraught with irregularities. "I have raised the issue of the voter rolls since day one," candidate Megawati, who currently stands at a distant second with a projected 20% of the vote, recently told foreign journalists. "There is a big chance that there could be a lot of cheating during the elections." (See pictures...
...takes power many years later. The special effects are rudimentary, but the churning of plot, and the richness of character and detail, keep you glued. One prophesy - that "The satanic salesmen will destroy the world" - might have referred to the Wall Street sharpies who crippled the world economy last fall, after the first two movies were made...