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Monday, October 1, 2007 12:00 AM

Afghanistan's next top model

Young women are taking off the burqa and strutting the catwalk for local TV.
Tracy Clark-Flory

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  • Monday, October 1, 2007 12:04 PM

    Congrats

    Good news little ladies of Afghanistan, you get to move from a burqua to a bikini. Things are really looking up as I am sure that being in a beauty contest can only mean you will no longer be exploited and degraded.

    —mappeal Read mappeal's other letters

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