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...road between Herat and Obey in western Afghanistan. Recently aid workers were carjacked on that road, and it is now considered too dangerous for aid agencies, effectively closing the main access to the central regions of the country. In provinces close to Kabul, such as Wardak, Ghazni and Logar, which were easy to visit two years ago, foreigners are regularly attacked and girls' schools burned at will. Afghanistan produces 92% of the world's opium (used to make heroin) and 35% of its cannabis and has a flourishing trade in looted antiquities. In a vicious cycle, narcotics, corruption...
...southern provinces, where a Taliban-driven insurgency has made it nearly impossible to secure the schools. But the violence is creeping closer to the capital. In June 2007, two gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead three female students coming out of high school in the central province of Logar, a 1 1?2-hour drive from Kabul...
...Afghanistan has any reason for hope, it is the sheer determination of the girls who do have a chance to go to school. Lida Ahmadyar, 12, whose sister was one of the girls killed in the Logar shooting, has started going back to school. Every day she walks past the spot where her sister died, but she clings to her dream of becoming a doctor. "I am afraid," she says. "But I like school because I am learning something, and that will make me important. With education, I can save my country." If enough of Afghanistan's girls...
...narrowing the gap to 7-5 before falling 8-5 to Amber Liu and Celia Durkin, who had played for Harvard as a freshman. In the No. 3 position, juniors Preethi Mukundan and Cindy Chu fell 8-2 to the Cardinal’s Whitney Deason and Theresa Logar. Stanford won four straight singles contests in the No. 2, 3, 4 and 6 spots to advance to the final round. Mukundan at No. 5 singles led the Cardinal’s Deason 6-2, 2-4, and Wang at No. 1 was behind...
Senior Alexis Martire played her first match of the tournament against Stanford’s Logar in the No. 4 position, and the former lost a close first set 6-4. She was down 5-3 in the second set when the match was called...