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...enough, however, simply to have women in government as the result of a last-ditch deal pushed through by women activists. They must have real political power. In order to ensure that women are part of any future Afghani government, women must first acquire the vote. The international community should be vociferous in its support of a constitution which grants women suffrage, and put pressure on any future government to ensure this fundamental right...
...year-old brushes away tears as he describes his prospects in the coming Afghan winter. Freezing rain and snow will cover the Dehdadi camp on the southern outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, home to 15,000 refugees. Temperatures will drop to 5[degrees]F, and the filthy roadside ditch from which the refugees fetch their gray fetid water will freeze...
...marked house, five Taliban fighters were trapped alive. Grenades were thrown in the tiny windows and AK-47s fired after them. With Alliance soldiers too afraid to enter the stables, a tank was brought in, crushing bodies under its tracks before firing five rounds into the block. In a ditch on the main parade ground, a young Taliban fighter, lying sprawled on his side, was still breathing. An Alliance soldier dropped a rock on his head. A few yards away lay a bloodied prayer book...
Harvard kept the pressure on in the final five minutes in its last-ditch effort to tie the game...
...there a town inside the fort? There is a little town here, outside the fort. The civilians were evacuated. And we're sort of just sitting in a ditch now with a bunch of Northern Alliance guys taking cover...