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...walks the crooked lanes of Kandahar urging women to learn to read and encouraging families to send their little girls to school. Refusing to wear a hijab, Rangina is an unusual sight in deeply conservative Kandahar, where most women remain cloistered at home. Hers is not a universally popular pitch. Some husbands forbid their wives to listen...
...internal sectarian strife flares anew or Iraq becomes the kind of rallying point for jihad that Afghanistan was, Indonesia's militant radicals will have to convince potential recruits that attacking Western targets at home is an honorable way to fight the infidel. The Marriott bombing did little for that pitch. The victims were mostly Indonesian Muslims. "There's unquestionably a huge sense of outrage," says Jones, "and a lot more willingness now to say that this kind of violence is not in keeping with Islam." An 18-year-old student at a school near Solo allegedly run by a member...
...hungry and aggressive Black Bear attack pushed the Crimson defenders towards their own goal mouth while the Maine fullbacks sealed off the pitch at midfield, halting Harvard’s advances...
Only seven minutes after stepping onto the pitch, Moran deposited her own rebound in the back of the net after a defender had just managed to clear Moran’s first attempt off the line with a desperate slide...
...kidnapped by her deranged father when she was in middle school. The story of moving around from empty movie theaters to dumpy motels ultimately becomes the story of being able to move on in one's life. On the opposite scale, R. Sikoryak pulls off another of his perfect-pitch satires, this time of Tintin, Herge's adventuring "boy reporter." "Prisoners of the Red Planet" finds Tim-Tim stranded on Mars where his can-do attitude encounters an untenable circumstance of radiation, insanity and death. "SPX 2003," with its wild variety of styles and stories by mostly unheard of artists...