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...years. All summer, my father cycles to his office at the Ministry of Justice in the sumptuous Darul Aman Palace. He's there to help the ministry frame a written legal code from tribal law, but as the summer wears on, the work dries up. The ex-minister remains in jail. Soviet advisers hustle through the hallways. Colleagues politely cancel meetings. My parents remain calm, hoping that the new regime might tackle the poverty, illiteracy and sexism they see blighting Afghanistan. "Perhaps," says my mother, "a good dose of socialism is just what this country needs...
...Afghanistan, though voices in Washington and other capitals have begun to mutter about it. With 30,000 more American troops headed to fight insurgents on the ground, the U.S., rightly or wrongly, is going to be there for a while yet. As in so much of the region, they remain stuck, mired in the history of clumsy foreign interventions...
...tame their war-torn industry. Gangs battled for turf under the nodding gaze of needy junkies. Prisons warehoused the violent and nonviolent with little regard for who could be rehabilitated. It made for award-winning drama, but it also was a reminder that in every American city, neighborhoods remain where violence still reigns and it simply isn't safe to walk around. And national crime statistics mean nothing to the millions of people who live there. (See the top 10 TV series...
Hughes, a sociology concentrator with a secondary field in government, says that her future plans remain uncertain and that she continues to hone her intellectual interests. Hughes, who has been attending events at the Institute of Politics, says she wishes to increase her involvement on campus...
...last report, unemployment stood at 9.7 percent, and it looks to remain at that level for a long time. The recently released budget outlines a $100 billion jobs program and a $30 billion program to help community banks make loans, but the administration itself projects that these will only put a small dent in unemployment, which will remain at levels over or near 8 percent through...