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...picture. He didn't learn her name, only that her parents had been killed by Soviet bombs. The picture appeared on the magazine's cover and, according to the editors, became the most recognized photograph in the publication's history. In subsequent visits to the region, McCurry tried in vain to locate her again. In January he returned to the refugee camp, and this time someone recognized Gula's picture and took her to meet McCurry. She now lives in Afghanistan with her husband and their three children. For the past decade, she has covered her face with a burka...
...Hasit’s efforts in trying to find a blocking group were not in vain...
...guestbook and people would write supportive messages in it,” she says. “It was like they were getting to know me.” Jane says that one week 60 users read her diary. “It sounds really vain, but it felt so good to know people were interested in my life,” she says...
...vain, I suppose, as I watch John Henry and that guy who invented “Third Rock from the Sun” pretend they give a damn about the Red Sox. While you were playing Red Rover during halftime of the Penn football game, pants dangling around your ankles, you could have at least tried...
...clock had been taken off the wall hours earlier in a vain event to stop time...