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...1960s and '70s, Afghanistan was a typical developing country, poor and struggling, with a slowly expanding role for women. By 1964 they had been granted the vote. The cities had begun to produce a small elite of educated women, who entered the professions, wore Western skirts and mixed comfortably with men. The Soviet invasion in 1979 was a disaster for Afghanistan generally. But under the Russians, women's rights were protected--even advanced to a degree that alienated some in Afghanistan's tradition-bound society. More women were introduced into government, given an authority that many men found unnerving. Shaima...
...YEARS OF THE WHIPS In the 1960s and '70s, Afghanistan was a typical developing country, poor and struggling, with a slowly expanding role for women. By 1964 they had been granted the vote. The cities had begun to produce a small Elite of educated women, who entered the professions, wore Western skirts and mixed comfortably with men. The Soviet invasion in 1979 was a disaster for Afghanistan generally. But under the Russians, women's rights were protected?even advanced to a degree that alienated some in Afghanistan's tradition-bound society. More women were introduced into government, given an authority...
...ever was. Every time football's quadrennial dance comes around, some of the game's best exponents find themselves sitting it out. Some individual geniuses have the misfortune of being born in countries lacking in footballing talent: Manchester United's George Best, the supreme artist of the 1960s, never went to the big show because Northern Ireland couldn't muster 10 other world-class players to play alongside him. Sometimes, favored teams inexplicably miss the cut?remember England in '94? The expansion of the Cup's final stages was supposed to improve the odds in favor of good players...
...everything has remained in its place for Atwood, who studied at Radcliffe as a graduate student in the early 1960s and returned to Cambridge after a significant hiatus to deliver a speech as part of the Radcliffe Institute Dean’s Lecture Series. I asked her how it felt to be back...
...Years of the Whips In the 1960s and '70s, Afghanistan was a typical developing country, poor and struggling, with a slowly expanding role for women. By 1964 they had been granted the vote. The cities had begun to produce a small elite of educated women, who entered the professions, wore Western skirts and mixed comfortably with men. The Soviet invasion in 1979 was a disaster for Afghanistan generally. But under the Russians, women's rights were protected--even advanced to a degree that alienated some in Afghanistan's tradition-bound society. More women were introduced into government, given an authority...