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...those who stayed home, determined mothers have found ways to get schooling for their daughters. Rawshan and Nasima, both 30, are married to the same man, Abdul Qadir, 55, a porter in a Kabul market who makes about $1 a day. Rawshan has one son and three daughters by Abdul. Nasima has one son and two daughters. Desperately poor, they live in a house peppered with bullet holes. For the past two years, Rawshan's eldest daughter Wahida, 10, has been going to a secret school in an abandoned building. She has only one hour of lessons a day, given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: About Face | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...those who stayed home, determined mothers have found ways to get schooling for their daughters. Rawshan and Nasima, both 30, are married to the same man, Abdul Qadir, 55, a porter in a Kabul market who makes about $1 a day. Rawshan has one son and three daughters by Abdul. Nasima has one son and two daughters. Desperately poor, they live in a house peppered with bullet holes. For the past two years, Rawshan's eldest daughter Wahida, 10, has been going to a secret school in an abandoned building. She has only one hour of lessons a day, given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: About Face | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

Where Zoolander excels is in parodying the fashion industry, which is harder than it might seem. For films that try - Robert Altman?s Prêt-a-Porter, for example - the problems are twofold. First, fashion is inherently silly - it?s already a parody of itself. How does one top the Christian Dior newspaper collection designer John Galliano said was inspired by the homeless? Second, the world of fashion is a tight clique - it?s hard to get close enough to the key players to make the parody ring true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Parody Parodied | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

...those who stayed home, determined mothers have found ways to get schooling for their daughters. Rawshan and Nasima, both 30, are married to the same man, Abdul Qadir, 55, a porter in a Kabul market who makes about $1 a day. Rawshan has one son and three daughters by Abdul. Nasima has one son and two daughters. Desperately poor, they live in a house peppered with bullet holes. For the past two years, Rawshan's eldest daughter Wahida, 10, has been going to a secret school in an abandoned building. She has only one hour of lessons a day, given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: About Face for Afghan Women | 11/25/2001 | See Source »

...first I was skeptical about the not-quite-deli, not-quite-coffee bar that moved in to replace The Cottonwood Cafe, a TexMex, blue cheese salad sensation. But I quickly found that a fabulous French deity has descended to grace the pantheon of restaurants situated on Massachusetts Avenue in Porter Square...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

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