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UNLIKE OTHER MEMOIRS, MADAME SECRETARY HAS HARDLY A HINT OF SCORE SETTLING. IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT, WHY DID YOU WRITE...
...earnest 26-year-old with a degree in religion is best friends with Ghotair, who can barely write her own name. They are both devout Muslims born in the same city. But when these new friends meet, two worlds collide: the old life of an Afghan woman, which reached a nadir under the Taliban, and a new kind of existence that's mightily struggling to be born. And while the faltering government in Kabul has made big promises to liberate Afghanistan's women, this struggle mostly occurs behind the closed doors of houses like Ghotair...
...would be the greatest gift I could receive." In fact, none of the female children in Ghotair's lane attend school. Ghotair's pretty seven-year-old niece, Farzana, has already been promised to a man to whom the family owes $2,300. (He has agreed to write off $450 in exchange.) Rangina hears the story in horror. She admits to suffering from what returning Afghans ruefully refer to as "survivor guilt," wondering how she escaped the horrors that still enslave her new friends. As she leaves Ghotair's hut, pushing through the dirty rag, she sighs: "There is still...
...countrymen, I write to you from Athens, in this the ninth month of the third year of the reign of Emperor Nuntius Minimus, as this wretched place wrestles with its irrelevant conscience over our great triumph in subjugating the Scythians and their leader, Vanitas, our most reviled foe since Vercingetorix...
This is a strange place compared to our eternal city, clinging, in this age of empire, to outdated notions of democracy and law. Why, even as I write, the whole polity is taken up by the case of a functionary who opened his veins, in fear of being ostracized—in Athenian terms, being banished from the city and its colonies. The government of the city is imperilled by this—not by invading hordes at the Long Walls, nor by an insurrection of the hoi polloi...