Sarah Chayes: Not Your Average Activist  Sarah Chayes, Harvard-
graduate and former National Public Radio (NPR) reporter, left
her job to help rebuild war-torn Afghanistan. She speaks Pashto,
occasionally dresses like an Afghan male, and has lived Kandahar
City since the fall of the Taliban. Sarah launched a cooperative
called Arghand in 2005 and has recently published The Punishment
of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban.  Why did you
decide to settle in Kandahar?  In history, you have these
watershed moments – the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand,
for example, marked the 20th century. And I think that 9/11,
2001 will prove to be that kind of watershed for the 21st
century. And I believe Kandaharis a very symbolic place in terms
of the direction the post-9/11 world will take. To me the issue
isn't the clash of civilizations, as it's often been described.
I actually think the real clash is that between those people,
whichever side of the so-called divide they fall on, who believe
in "with us or