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...icon of rebellion, however, Neda is different from her predecessors. The man who stopped the tanks in Beijing stood alone and anonymous; we do not know his name or his fate. Neda is dead, but her life story is still being pulled together--elaborated and embellished, blog post by blog post, tweet by tweet...
...take), the movie still earned less in those five days than 2006's Ice Age: The Meltdown did in its first three. It didn't help that Dawn of the Dinosaurs was the summer's fifth movie whose cast of characters included at least one prehistoric beast. (Can you name the other four?*) It may be time for Hollywood to go back to spacemen...
...Outside the Sergiyev Posad monastery, the women selling nesting dolls are also skeptical about the industry's future. "The government's plans rarely help," says Yelena (who declined to give her last name), a handicrafts vendor along the souvenir strip. As the women sitting in their lawn chairs nearby nod their heads in agreement, she adds, "If they really want to help, they should increase our pensions." If Russia's handicrafts industry collapses, a 120-year-old tradition could begin to fade and pensions could be all that these women - and thousands of dollmakers - have left...
Another unexpected female star is Sofia Mulanovich, the first Peruvian (and Latin American) to win an Association of Professional Surfers' world championship. Her name was engraved on the National Stadium a few years back. Mulanovich is also highly popular, but following in her footsteps is limited by a number of factors, including the basic necessity of being close to surfing waves...
...countless more raped, disabled, and traumatized. Johnson Sirleaf is among 50 people the Commission recommends should not be allowed to hold public office. The Commission also says that dozens of individuals should face further investigation and prosecution, though does not include Johnson Sirleaf on those lists. Still, to name the president as the TRC does, is tough censure for someone so widely respected. "To exclude someone from the right of running for political office is a very serious position to take that has to be extremely grounded in facts," says Corrine Dufka, a senior research with Human Rights Watch...