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...Bush will need perfect pitch. Some may dismiss his verbal "realism" as the bluster of a green President who wants to puff up his toughness and resolve. Others may see the candor as a sign of overt hostility?and simply stop listening. Bashing Russia fuels anti-American forces in Russian society. Isolating North Korea doesn't reduce its threatening missiles. The Aegis could hurt rather than help Taiwan's security. How, asks Brookings Institution senior fellow Ivo Daalder, will Washington get competitors to "work with us when we're poking them in the eye"? Bush may find that tough talk...
...lived for more than 30 years - and where her husband was murdered by looters 14 months ago - and walks to her job as head nurse in a nearby children's clinic. Like nearly every other building in Grozny, her five-story block was largely destroyed during the Russian assault in January 2000, and only one other family still lives on her staircase. The hall, however, is neatly swept, and chalked in an authoritative hand on the door of each empty apartment is a notice: "Checked...
...This is Anna's work. After the last Russian military zachistka, or house-to-house search, when front doors were kicked in and remaining property disappeared, she paid a carpenter to wedge the doors shut, and she wrote the inscriptions in the hopes of warding off more raids. As Anna leaves the building, she worries about the stench from the two corpses that have lain in an adjoining apartment for the past year: a bed-ridden woman and her adult son who were killed during the Russian offensive. Neither the Russian military nor the Moscow-appointed Chechen administration has responded...
...surmise they were killed during a military raid. No one was surprised by the discovery: as another resident of the courtyard, a pretty teenager named Luiza Israilova, put it: "everyone has got used to killings." The district where Anna lives, Mikrorayon, is pretty much a safe area for anti-Russian guerrillas, who recently detonated two remote-controlled mines and killed a soldier in the space of a couple of days...
...only things atypical about Anna are that she is an ethnic Russian - she came here with her family as a small girl in 1946 - and she has a job. The clinic's staff has not been paid since August, and it survives without any appreciable help from the Russians or their Chechen allies. But work there probably keeps Anna sane. And as she and a colleague talk about their lives these days, she pauses and says what nearly everyone here says sooner or later: "What a great city this...