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She is now back in the city of Peshawar in the northwest of Pakistan, but is unable to attend formal school because of insecurity there. One of my American friends once asked me if I traveled by camel in Pakistan. Needless to say, my answer was no. But Americans should know more about life in Pakistan than just this. Pakistanis as a whole are democratic, progressive and mostly secular in their attitudes; it is because of this that a religious party could almost never win an election here. Of all Pakistanis, the Pashtuns, allegedly involved in the war on terror, have the poorest image.

Well, perhaps not. But I would like to invite you to submit entries to a new poetry contest meant to capture the ethos of our times in verse. And if you can make us feel better, or laugh, or think more deeply, so much the better. Why poetry? The Poetry Society will review entries and select finalists; a huge thanks to the society and its executive director, Alice Quinn.

It all began with a stop at a red light. Kevin Salwen, a writer and entrepreneur in Atlanta, was driving his year-old daughter, Hannah, back from a sleepover in While waiting at a traffic light, they saw a black Mercedes coupe on one side and a homeless man begging for food on the other. The light changed and they drove on, but Hannah was too young to be reasonable.

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake. Yet no humanitarian crisis generates so little attention per million corpses, or such a pathetic international response. For Chance, the war arrived one evening last May when armed soldiers from an extremist Hutu militia — remnants of those who committed the Rwandan genocide — burst into her home.