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To: Scumbria who wrote (547)7/17/2002 1:26:08 PM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (1) of 3959
 
Let us pit our First Lady against the Afghan woman most familiar to the educated American public: Sharbat Gula. You probably won't recognize the name, but this is the woman whose face, featured on the cover of National Geographic in 1985, was among the most widely replicated of all the photos featured in that magazine in its long history. The photo (sometimes called "hauntingly beautiful") showed a teenage girl with wide green eyes who had plainly seen her share of terror. With some fanfare, National Geographic announced last spring that the hitherto nameless subject of the photo had been found in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, by the original photographer Steven McCurry, and then interviewed in a refugee camp in Pakistan. Sharbat Gula, now 28 or 29, perhaps shocked her interviewers by opining, quite categorically, "life under the Taliban was better. At least there was peace and order"

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