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Widow Shah Jan sits in an icy room with mud walls in a snowfield on the edge of Kabul. She wipes her tears with the edge of her grimy sweater as she recalls the day in August 1999 when the Taliban set fire to her home in the vineyards of the Shomali Plain and kidnapped her best friend, Nafiza. "The Taliban burst in with their guns and torches," says Shah Jan. "None of us even had time to put on our veils...
...mud-fortress villages above the Shomali vineyards, more than 600 women vanished in the 1999 Taliban offensive. Yet these abductions are considered such a great dishonor that the victims' families almost never mention them. Says Qadria Yasdon Parast, leader of Freedom Messengers, a Kabul women's rights group: "If you ask about the missing, they'll say, 'Our daughter's dead,' or that she's off married in Pakistan." Many of the women probably did end up in Pakistan--but were sold to brothels or kept as virtual slaves inside homes, say officials from relief agencies. None have come back...
...Winthrop House election to fill two vacant seats in the Undergraduate Council turned nasty Monday, as the house open e-mail list was flooded with negative campaigning and electronic mud-slinging...
...scene featuring the two Winthrop House seniors indicted for larceny was truly theatre of the absurd, familiar to me only in that it was vaguely reminiscent of the O.J. Simpson trial. The same mud-brown paneling, uptight officers, grim-faced suits. It was a moment of such epic soap-opera proportions that one half expected close-ups or an outburst from an aggrieved Hasty Pudding-ite in four-inch heels. Where was the bad theme music? Judge Ito? The white Explorer? The New York Post headline? But there were no such unseemly antics in yesterday’s episode...
...will benefit from the same flood of extra viewers that helped CBS' "Survivor II: The Australian Outback" become the most popular entertainment program of 2001. With the stakes so high, "Malcolm" features cameo appearances from Heidi Klum, Magic Johnson and extra-special guest Susan Sarandon, who partakes in a mud-wrestling match...