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Deborah Ellis is a writer, women's rights activist and mental health counselor in Toronto. Her latest children's book is 'The Breadwinner', published this month by Oxford University Press. The novel follows a young Afghan girl living in poverty under the Taliban who is forced to masquerade as a boy to earn food for her family. Billed as the only children's book available on current life in Afghanistan, interest in The Breadwinner has surged as parents struggle to explain the events of recent months to their children...
...Washington two weeks ago, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and the President's Special Counselor, Karen Hughes, met with Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority, and Mavis Leno, who has long worked to bring attention to the problems of Afghan women. "We asked the Administration to make returning women to equal status under the law a nonnegotiable issue in forming any new government," says Leno, wife of Tonight Show host Jay Leno. "That's pretty much the language Colin Powell used when he spoke at the State Department [last week], so it appears the government is going...
...week went 3 to 2 for Bloomberg. They were looking for guidance about who should lead them through perilous times--with downtown still smoldering, the largest budget deficits in city history looming and some 100,000 people unemployed as a result of the attack--and there seemed no better counselor than the man who'd been leading them so well. A city where Democrats outnumber Republicans 5 to 1 put back-to-back Republicans in office for the first time ever. In effect, this was Giuliani's third successful election, the one he had longed for but was barred...
...World Crises for Student Stress and Academic Achievement," in which students will write a journal and interview one another. But on most campuses, rattled students have to fend for themselves. Mental-health services are mobbed; at Syracuse University there's now a 19-day wait to see a counselor unless it's an emergency. At Spirit Rock, a Buddhist meditation center in Northern California, attendance at teen meditation classes is up 30% since Sept. 11. Sophie Clavier, a lecturer at San Francisco State University, says her class in international relations has become "a group-therapy session." The students, she says...
...girl," says Brent Ahrens, a Birmingham, Ala., store detective who cares for Malia, 5. But there are compensations. On his days off, Malia wakes him early, and they head off to a lake where a buddy has a boat. "She outfishes us both," he boasts. Deryck Miller, a youth counselor in Eagan, Minn., who has custody of daughter Nashan, 13, wasn't sure how to broach the subject of menstruation. In the end, he says, a Girl Scout manual "gave me the best breakdown." His advice to other dads: "Get to that other side, and don't stay stuck...