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...Taliban military power has not brought real peace to Afghanistan, neither has the disappearance of its hated religious police brought women freedom overnight. Afghan society is tribal and conservative. Except for a small minority of educated professionals in Kabul, women have long been relegated to a subservient role. In rural areas of northern Afghanistan that are under the control of the Northern Alliance, the burka is still universal, though no law requires it. Even in Kabul, where Western-style skirts were not uncommon before the Taliban, many women say the burka is the least of their concerns. Dr. Rahima Zafar...
From Chicago high schools to rural Texas middle schools, an energized cry for school prayer now echoes from pulpits, political leaders, parents and students. The long-running moral conflict over public schools has found new energy in the wake of September’s terrorist attacks. But the solution is not simply to put prayer in public schools. Instead, we must help students practice real virtues and empower parents to choose among private schools with strong moral or religious priorities...
...Ciccone, a native of rural New Hope, Penn., the tumultuous adjustment to Harvard was complicated by inadequate advising. Her interests ranged from history to Russian studies, her professional plans from law to education. Without informed advice from her proctor, Ciccone felt just as confused halfway through first semester as she did during Freshman Week. “He’d call me into his room to ‘discuss’ my classes. He’d write down my courses, ask me how I was doing,and tell me, ‘Well, uh, basically, just come...
...Awards, Zoolander?s foe Hansel says, "Do I know what product I?m selling? No. Do I know what I?m doing here today? No." It?s not that models are dumb, it?s that they seem dumb, like any average American teenager plucked from a rural high school and dumped into the cynical big city...
...Taliban restored order to Afghan cities, but it was order of a sinister kind. Most of the leadership and the fighters were Pashtun tribesmen from rural areas of the south around Kandahar. In some respects, the harshness of their treatment of women was their attempt to extend across all Afghanistan the primitive social order of their villages at home. And it allowed the leadership to claim that Taliban rule had conferred on its male warriors a new degree of authority. The nation was a shambles, but at least the women were firmly under control...