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How The New York Times Pulled Off the Historic Evacuation of 124 Afghans

Five years ago, the world watched as Kabul fell. Now, in an exclusive excerpt from The Last Free Women, a former deputy managing editor at the Times gives a gripping recount of how she and her colleagues raced to get their Afghan team and their families on a plane out of Afghanistan. When they landed in the US, they became one of the largest privately sponsored groups in modern American history.

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