1.   A shroud-like body covering, the burqa, is mandated for all females who appear in public.

2.   She makes clothes come alive, lifting them beyond body coverings, imbuing them with higher intellectual meaning or wisdom of the street.

3.   Women dressed in the burkhas, the body coverings for women that have only lace openings for the eyes, bartered over meager piles of rice and vegetables.

4.   Women, who were beaten in the streets by the Taliban if they did not wear a burka, have been much slower to remove the full-length body coverings.

5.   Even those who want to continue to wear their billowing body coverings pleaded Wednesday for the new administration to guarantee education for women.