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In the weeks leading up to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, officials from Bard College in New York helped evacuate students so they could study in Kyrgyzstan. Reporter Levi Bridges tells how these students, many of them young women, ended up studying in Bishkek, and are trying to preserve their Afghan culture while carving out a new future for themselves.