August 15, 2006
From the page to the schoolroom: Monitor readers send six Malawian girls to school
Reprinted from The Christian Science MonitorBy Xanthe Scharff
In the summer of 2005, I met Anne Bonefesi, a 14-year-old girl in Malawi who tended her siblings rather than attending eighth grade. Her parents, like most in her community, lacked the funds to send girls to school beyond the seventh grade ("What it's like to live on $1 a day," July 6, 2005).
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August 07, 2006
Counterinsurgency, by the Book
Reprinted from The New York TimesBy Richard H. Shultz Jr. and Andrea J. Dew
As we all know, war has changed. In the 21st century it is dominated by irregular and unconventional ways of fighting. Al Qaeda demonstrated this on 9/11, and the bloody wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are only further corroboration. War can no longer be waged effectively by conventional combat forces employed by modern militaries.
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