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In Afghanistan getting an education can be a risky affair, if you are female. Earlier this month, a group of girls on their way to their all-girls high school were doused with what appears to be battery acid by two men in motorcycles.  The two men used toy squirt guns to spray the girls in the face.  Six girls total were injured in the attack, two were blinded. The Taliban denied any involvement with the attack on the girls, though it was believed that the extremist Islamic group had targeted the girls.  The Taliban which ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, until they were ousted by NATO, forbade the education of women. Today the police in Kandahar have arrested 10 Taliban militants who say they were involved in the attack.  The men who assaulted the girls said that they were irate that the girls dared to attend high school. According to the story in the NYT:

Zalmay Ayobi, the spokesman for the governor of Kandahar, said that the orders to carry out the attack had been given from a foreign country, although he did not name the country. The militants were arrested by the police last week. Mr. Ayobi said a joint delegation from the Interior Ministry and the office of the attorney general in the capital, Kabul, had arrived in Kandahar on Monday to evaluate the cases of the suspects.

Officials say the men, who confessed their involvement in the attack claim that a high-ranking member of the Taliban paid them 100,000 Pakistani rupees for each girl they burned.  The Taliban is insistent on maintaining women in a second-class citizen status.

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Where to begin with this one?  Since I was a teenager, I've had a yearly ritual where I read this novel every November.  Wuthering Heights is by far my all-time favorite novel.  I just finished reading it for about the tenth time and it's just as mesmerizing as the first time. This is definitely not the feel-good, love story.  It is dark and depressing and should be read in the fall when it is rainy and windy and you can curl up in your favorite chair and get lost in the dark and stormy Yorkshire moors.  This book is an unpolished and devastating epic of childhood playmates who grow into soul mates, is widely regarded as the most original tale of thwarted desire and heartbreak in the English language.  It's very hard to have compassion for the main characters, who despite being passionately in love with one another, adamantly refuse to express that love because of the social barriers. There is a lot of symbolism and at times you have to delve deeper than the surface to understand what's happening. The antagonist in this story is pure, unadulterated evil.