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the painful past behind.Powell endured the explosive battle over desegregation 
in Boston in the 1970s. Tears come to her eyes when she 
talks about how it took her decades to return to the place 
where she never felt safe as an African-American seventh-grader."It was 
scary because of what you were going into, getting bricks thrown at 
your bus. I remember the bus windows being broken," said Powell, now 
48.Nearly four decades later, Powell's native city also is still working 
to move forward from the legacy of the school busing crisis. Last 
year, Mayor Thomas Menino created an advisory group whose aim was to 
work toward putting students back in neighborhood schools. And last month, 
school officials agreed to do away with the last vestiges of the 
desegregation-based school assignment system, beginning in 2014.But raw 
feelings remain from that divisive time. And to explore and mend the 
divisions, the nonprofit Union of Minority Neighborhoods has been holding 
public story circles across Boston where participants like Powell can open 
up about their own experiences.Organizers hope the airing of voices will 
help people of different races and economic classes learn from the city's 
busing past so they can fight together for access to quality schools 
for all students. Project director Donna Bivens said the exercises are designed 
to be about listening and discussing, but not judging each other's stories."I 
think that we can't move forward, looki
KABUL, Afghanistan  A NATO airstrike killed 11 Afghan civilians, including 
10 children, during a fierce weekend gunbattle with Taliban militants that 
also left one U.S. civilian adviser dead in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan 
officials said Sunday.The U.S.-led coalition confirmed that airstrikes were 
called in by international forces during the Afghan-led operation in a remote 
area of Kunar province near the Pakistan border. The coalition said it 
was aware of reports that civilians were killed, but had no immediate 
information about their deaths.The death of Afghan civilians caught in the 
crossfire of battle has been a major point of contention between international 
forces and the Afghan government, prompting President Hamid Karzai to ban 
his troops from requesting airstrikes earlier this year.Wasifullah Wasify, 
a government official in Kunar province, said the airstrike on Saturday 
targeted a house and killed 10 children and one woman inside. He 
said seven Taliban suspects also were killed and five other women were 
wounded inside the house.The airstrike occurred after a joint U.S.-Afghan 
force faced hours of heavy gunfire from militants after launching an operation 
targeting a senior Taliban leader late Friday in the Shultan area of 
Kunar's Shigal district, according to tribal elder Gul Pasha, who also is 
the chief of the local council in Shultan."In the morning after sunrise, 
planes appeared in the sky and airstrikes started and continued u


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