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Barack Obama has been President for six months now, and we are beginning to learn a few things about how he does business. The most surprising of these is that he is a vehement traditionalist, a small-c conservative, despite his opponents' best efforts to paint him as a radical. In foreign policy, this has meant a return to traditional diplomatic devices - treaties, alliances, negotiation, a global strategic vision - after the ad hoc, go-it-alone bellicosity of his predecessor. No less a high priest than Henry Kissinger recently called Obama a "chess player," which is high praise...
...sure that the funds will reach all of the factories," he says. But even if they do, not all of the country's handicrafts are produced in the small factories that dot rural Russia. In Sergiyev Posad, the historic home of the nesting doll, many people still paint dolls in their living rooms and kitchens. While the government says it aims to save a traditional Russian art form, the artisans who still do the work in the most traditional way may be the ones who suffer most: they won't see a ruble of the government's stimulus package, which...
...dashing horses, young lovers and soaring eagles that Krytikova has copied over the years out of books of fairy tales, from greeting cards and even off the tops of cake boxes. "When I'm working, I forget about everything," she says as she peers over her glasses to paint intricate curlicues on the body of a large doll. "I forget about family problems. I forget about the crisis...
...remember how many shells were fired? That we don't [reveal]. Fireworks is an art and a performance. You wouldn't ask Michelangelo how many buckets of paint he used to paint the Sistine Chapel. It's the same with us - it's what your eyes and ears tell you the entertainment value...
...NCRI says the idea that it is a terrorist group is a politically motivated smear. Mohaddessin argues that Iran fears the NCRI as the only opposition force capable of toppling the revolution and so continues to paint the group as extremist. NCRI officials readily acknowledge that the MEK is a member of its coalition but say the organizations operate independently. In the past, they've also stressed that MEK strikes in Iran did not amount to terrorism because they avoided civilians and targeted members of Iran's political and security structures. "Our legal, just struggle aims to bring democracy...