Time's Startling Cover

In a note entitled “What’s Hard to Look At,” Time Editor Richard Stengel explains the purpose of running the picture: “Our cover image this week is powerful, shocking and disturbing. It is a portrait of Aisha, a shy 18-year-old Afghan woman who was sentenced by a Taliban commander to have her nose and ears cut off for fleeing her abusive in-laws.

“…I thought long and hard about whether to put this image on the cover of TIME.

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