Yet there is little love in the village for India's grand old party.

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Desperately in love with the indifferent Victoria (Sienna Miller), the prettiest and perhaps shallowest girl in their serene Victorian English village, Tristan strikes a bargain: If, as a birthday gift, he brings her the star that has just fallen, Victoria will be his bride.

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It's a global village, even in the countryside, and they love it.

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Her impact, at AID and the Ford Foundation and with departments of the Indonesian government, grew out of her deep understanding of village peasant economics, the importance of women in the rural economy, and her love of the people she met in her work.

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