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“Its doors stayed open through every kind of political system: a peaceable kingdom, Soviet backed communism, warlordism, Islamism and a would-be democracy bankrolled by the West.” Veteran journalist lyse doucet reads from her new memoir, “The Finest Hotel in Kabul.”

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