In Kabul's Malali High School for girls, the windows are broken, the desks are cracked, and posters on the wall warn of the dangers of land mines and unexploded bombs. But until last week, 500 girls still managed to study science, history, math and French in those crumbling classrooms despite a 4 1/2-year civil war raging around them. No longer. The war is just about over, and Kabul's new rulers, the Taliban, have firm notions about the peace: it will be piously, even pitilessly, Muslim. In that scheme there's no place for young women learning French. "I cry seeing the classrooms...
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