Word: lane
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...Rangina gets a warm reception at Ghotair's lane. Children playing outside alert their mothers and elder sisters. Clad anonymously in the customary blue-pleated hijab, they head for Ghotair's hut, carrying shawls and tablecloths they have embroidered. Behind the dirty rag that serves as a front door, they give Rangina their work, for which she pays from the ngo's funds. (They are sold through a loose network of friends and family back in the U.S.) "It has changed our lives," marvels Ghotair. "We can get clothes for our children and milk powder for the babies." She points...
...visitors in her room are all related: in fact, the nine couples who live in the adjoining mud houses on the lane are brothers, sisters and cousins who have cross-married to avoid paying dowries. When they shed their hijab, Afghan women lead a feisty life. Ghotair is the family hairdresser, and all the women have short, styled hair. The husbands enjoy it when their wives apply makeup and dress in transparent, low-cut outfits so that they look like Bombay movie stars. "They have many desires," grins Ghotair. The other women chortle happily, swapping stories of conjugal demands...
...Right now it’s already really competitive. People from each group bombard the poster boards,” said Lane D. Levine ’06, a member of the Din and Tonics...
Westfall has a much more intimate knowledge of the team, having played on the same Olympic Development Program team as UVA defender Katie Bunch and forward Sarah Lane...
...final bright spot in the game was freshman forward Julie Lane. Playing with a fast, yet controlled aggressiveness, Lane continued to show promise coming off the Crimson bench and serving as a spark plug...