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...stolen while she visits his shop, the young woman remains indefatigably chipper. And that's just the beginning of Leigh's film. As it develops she brings her good cheer to all kinds of situations - an encounter with a homeless man, a bully in her classroom, a difficult relationship with her more bourgeois sister and her dismal husband. Poppy's peppiness sustains her in other, less dramatically pointed ways as well. Like a lot of single working women, she makes a life with her girl friends - disco dancing, afternoons in the park, modest attempts at self-improvement - that...
...accession to membership in NATO. But Ukrainian democracy has a way of muddying the picture. On Wednesday, President Viktor Yushchenko, a strong U.S. ally and champion of NATO membership, called a snap parliamentary election, following the collapse of his ruling coalition last month. Questions of the country's future relationship with Russia and the West remain contested in Ukraine's political maneuvering, but it was not manipulation on the part of Moscow that brought down the Yushchenko government. The immediate threat comes from Yushchenko's erstwhile key coalition partner, the ambitious populist politician Yulia Tymoshenko. She had joined with...
...Crimean port of Sevastopol. Observers in Ukraine believe her priority in dealing with Moscow right now is to secure lower prices for the natural-gas imports on which the country depends, and given Russia's inclination to use energy for geopolitical leverage, that requires a more cooperative relationship. While avoiding being seen as choosing sides between Washington and Moscow, Tymoshenko has nonetheless sought to strengthen her relations with the U.S. Like many leaders along Russia's periphery, in the wake of the Georgia crisis, she inclines toward a policy of maintaining good relations with both sides in a moment...
Pope Benedict XVI's mostly warm but sometimes chilly relationship with the worldwide Jewish community may have just hit a major ice patch. On Thursday, Benedict put his moral weight (though not yet his signature) behind the cause for sainthood for Pope Pius XII, the wartime Pontiff who many Jewish leaders criticize for not having done enough to oppose the Holocaust...
...tanks? There is mounting evidence from U.S. officials and other experts that the tanks aboard the Faina were not destined for Kenya, as both the Kenyan government and the tank's Ukrainian shippers claim, but for South Sudan, the autonomous oil-rich region of Sudan, which has a fractious relationship with the central government in Khartoum. If the standoff is resolved, will the three American warships encircling the Faina just clear a path and allow it to proceed...