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HERAT, Afghanistan — Even the poorest families in Afghanistan have matches and cooking fuel. The combination usually sustains life. But it also can be the makings of a horrifying escape: from poverty, from forced marriages, from the abuse and despondency that can be the fate of Afghan women. The night before she burned herself, Gul Zada took her children to her sister’s for a family party. All seemed well. Later it emerged that she had not brought a present, and a relative had chided her for it, said her son Juma Gul. This small thing apparently broke her. Ms. Zada,...

FReeper Joy Tiz & author of Obamnanutz: A Cult Leader Takes the White House was on Air America. Typical lib host: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush. Joy did get a few words in.

ITHACA NY-A vibrant hue pierced parts of campus last Friday, as students and professors in orange T-shirts rallied together to voice their opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. “For 24 hours we skip class, we skip work, we leave our cars at home, we buy nothing, we fast,” the students stated on their website. “For one day we set our lives aside to examine and understand this occupation … .” Orange Friday, as the event was called, engaged faculty and students in a day-long dialogue in an effort to raise awareness about the repercussions of the war...