Word: girls
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...Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit...
...Afghan culture, women are seen as the repository of family honor, and the education of girls--whether in terms of the design of school buildings or in the way in which classes are conducted--needs to reflect that reality," says Matt Waldman, the Afghan policy adviser for Oxfam, which released a damning report in 2006 on the state of education in Afghanistan. It shows that the ratio of boys to girls in primary school is roughly 2 to 1, but by the time girls enter secondary school (and puberty), the ratio drops to four boys for every girl. In more...
...Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl...
...Nazi killings of Jews during pogroms in Ukraine's villages. Some Ukrainians also helped to run Nazi concentration camps. This persecution by their own countrymen left deep bitterness among Ukrainian-Jewish Holocaust survivors, says Lee Schein, 77, who fled Rava-Ruska during the war as a 12-year-old girl, and now lives in Glen Ellen, California. "The Nazis offered the Ukrainians their own state if they worked with them, so they worked with them," she says. "It is a pure miracle that I got away." But Desbois insists he is not looking to assign blame...
...Were you living here during the war?" he asked as residents emerged from their homes, startled at the sight of an outsider. As darkness fell, Hanna Dvurinska, 79, invited us into her tiny wooden house. There she told Desbois how she had watched - as a 14-year-old girl - from her parents' living-room window, as Vysotsk's Jews were led down the road to a freshly dug grave; hours of gunshots followed. "Some of them were carrying their possessions," she said through a translator. "They knew they were going to be shot." A few doors down, Iarino Hanitko told...