AFGHANISTAN

It's our last chance to save the women

BY ELLEN GOODMAN

It's been 11 years since I looked through a photo album smuggled out of Afghanistan by a brave young woman. ``This is a doctor,'' she said, pointing to one picture. ``This is a teacher.'' It was impossible to tell one woman from another under the burqas enforced by their Taliban rulers. 1257565429

CUBA

Juanita's Cinema Paradiso in Birán

BY GINA MONTANER

There's little I can add to the big news about the secret kept for decades by Juanita Castro: Her valiant collaboration with the CIA to save from imprisonment and execution the democrats of the domestic opposition whom her brothers Fidel and Raúl crushed with such virulence. Her memoirs and statements testify to her private crusade. 1257565414

AIR SHOW IN HOMESTEAD

Come meet your military neighbors

BY WILLIAM BINGER

Since the time of the American Revolution, this country has had a military comprised almost entirely of citizen volunteers. Until the First World War almost all of our wars were fought close to home, which helped the military retain high visibility and rapport with the civilian population. This gave the people the sense, and in many cases literally, that they were personally being protected. Frequently it was a father, brother or son fighting a hundred miles or less from home. The military were heroes, the good guys who were lauded in songs and novels. 1257565406

VERBATIM

Regulating the financial market

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Below are excerpts from AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka's recent testimony before the House Financial Services Committee:

Our members were not invited to Wall Street's party but we have paid for it with devastated pension funds, lost jobs, and public bailouts of private sector losses. Our goal is a financial system that is transparent, accountable and stable, that is the servant of the real economy rather than its master. 1257565430

PANAMA CANAL EXPANSION

A challenge for Miami port

BY JOE REEDER

Despite the global recession, the sounds of construction are well underway along the pathway that brings about 2.1 million tons of general cargo to Miami's port each year after passing through the Panama Canal. Along the canal, cranes and bulldozers hum as reminders that, yes, in fact, things will get better.

FOX NEWS

Truman's advice for Obama

BY DICK POLMAN

Harry Truman could've taught Barack Obama a thing or two about how to deal with a hostile press -- basically, by ignoring it.

AFGHANISTAN

On Hamid Karzai's tightrope

BY DAVID IGNATIUS

With the ``reelection'' of President Hamid Karzai, if that's the right word for a process that featured fraudulent balloting and a canceled runoff, the United States now confronts the hardest puzzle of all about Afghanistan: How to improve governance there -- which most experts agree is essential to defeat the Taliban -- without taking even more control from Afghan officials?