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Agajan has a message for Afghanistan’s incumbent politicians. The turbaned, gap-toothed man may only be a humble shop-keeper, but on election day, Agajan will exercise his right and vote against the president. “I won’t vote for Hamid Karzai,” says Agajan, who according to local custom uses only one name.
At 90, Chandler Murray’s mailbox, not counting bills and solicitations, receives only a handful of seasonal letters from a few old friends. “People just don’t write letters anymore,” says his daughter, Heather Bellanca. And by people, she means anyone more than 20 years younger than Murray, who lives by himself in Middlebury, Vt.