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		<title>Remember, remember the ninth of November</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/remember-remember-the-ninth-of-november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rina Kuusipalo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thilo Roth (Germany AC 08-10)
On the 9th November 1989, the one of the leading members of the East German government announced on a press conference that the borders would be opened and the citizens of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) would be free to travel to West Germany. On the question when this new rule [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=1031&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rina Kuusipalo</media:title>
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		<title>The Psychology of Solitude</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/the-psychology-of-solitude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gala von Nettelbladt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Holt (USA, AC 09-11)
It seems to me that introversion at Atlantic College (and thus introverts as well) are criminally undervalued.  Now, I make no contention with socializing or with keeping active in the company of others; in fact, I believe that these are essential components to  personal health and happiness.  Emotional growth through such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=1022&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Gala von Nettelbladt</media:title>
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		<title>SATS: You fill in the acronym</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/sats-you-fill-in-the-acronym/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rina Kuusipalo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexandra Sánchez (Bay Area, California, AC 08-10)
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If “all that is gold does not glitter,” than SAT scores should not amount to the categorization of an individual. In fact, any United States student will tell you the countless times she or he may have heard the famous comfort: intelligence also rests outside standardized testing, some people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=1020&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rina Kuusipalo</media:title>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize &#8220;what the world seeks for&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/nobel-peace-prize-what-the-world-seeks-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rina Kuusipalo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diana Huynh (Norway/Vietnam AC 09-11) 
The beginning of October brought the announcement of the annual Nobel Prizes, and among them – perhaps considered the most significant of all – the Peace Prize. The prize has been rewarded for over a hundred years to men and women for their efforts working for peace and justice.
This year it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=1017&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rina Kuusipalo</media:title>
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		<title>Recollections of a Project in South America</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/recollections-of-a-project-in-south-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gala von Nettelbladt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dylan Hitchcock- Lopez (USA, AC 08-10)
The first thing any Chilean will tell you upon arriving in their country is to watch out for Chileans. According to Chileans, Chileans are very dangerous. They will- they say -rob you blind and leave you to die in the gutter without a moments hesitation. Indeed, It might have even been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=1011&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Gala von Nettelbladt</media:title>
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		<title>No &#8220;further dawdling&#8221; on US health care</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/no-further-dawdling-on-us-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rina Kuusipalo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Holt (USA, AC 08-10)
 
Almost everyone is in agreement that something is ailing the American health care system, but no one seems quite sure what to do about it.  On one side of the debate, the left calls for the implementation of universal coverage styled after numerous examples in Europe.  Conversely, the right descries the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=1009&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rina Kuusipalo</media:title>
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		<title>AC survey: &#8216;wide range of opinions&#8217; on homosexuality</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/ac-survey-wide-range-of-opinions-on-homosexuality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rina Kuusipalo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Platform 6 Activity (AC)
This year, as always, didn’t disappoint in giving a voice to a wide range of opinions about the issues Platform 6, the college gay-straight alliance, discusses on a regular basis. Unique to this year was that the staff were also invited to participate. A total of 104 people responded to the survey.
36% of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=1006&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rina Kuusipalo</media:title>
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		<title>AC environmental focus week: &#8220;Climate change is not an essay you can delay&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/ac-environmental-focus-week-climate-change-is-not-an-english-essay-you-can-delay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rina Kuusipalo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assi Askala (Finland, AC 09-11)
 
As all the UWCs are full of active and globally concerned young people, so is Atlantic College. Due to that, we have large number activities, and every single week we have a focus on one theme. We all know that climate change is a crucial issue, so it is not a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=1002&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rina Kuusipalo</media:title>
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		<title>“Make the country safe &#8211; Kick the black sheep out”</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/%e2%80%9cmake-the-country-save-kick-the-black-sheep-out%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gala von Nettelbladt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[


Carolin Steindel (Switzerland, AC 08-10)



 
 
Switzerland- a country known for its banks, mountains and chocolate. It is considered a peaceful place, hardly ever mentioned in the news and politically absolutely uninteresting. It is considered the “country of neutrality “, always managing to keep out of every conflict or scandal &#8211; apparently.
But Switzerland has always been good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=993&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Gala von Nettelbladt</media:title>
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		<title>Ramadan, The month of Fasting</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/ramadan-the-month-of-fasting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zainabsyed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zainab Syed (Pakistan, AC 08-10)
“O you who believe! the fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may become Al Mutaaqun (the pious). (Fasting) for a fixed number of days, but if any of you is ill or on a journey, the same number (should be made up) from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=988&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;No room in this melting-pot of culture to be overly-sensitive&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/no-room-in-this-melting-pot-of-culture-to-be-overly-sensitive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gala von Nettelbladt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wonga Andrew Ndopu (South Africa, AC 09-11)
For those who live under rocks and might have missed developments in pop culture in recent history, Mariah Carey has become the artist with the most number-one singles ever after releasing her eighteenth chart-topper, Touch My Body, last year. Divulging this trivia has less to do with the success [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=973&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Gala von Nettelbladt</media:title>
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		<title>The Change I Would Like To See In My Country</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/the-change-i-would-like-to-see-in-my-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gala von Nettelbladt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hannah Friedland (USA, AC 09-11)
 
I want to see my country throw off the shackles of relatively recent precedents, such as a century of staunch interventionism after an equally extreme century of isolationism, and act not upon the confines of antiquated doctrine but what is right for the people of our country and the world. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=979&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Gala von Nettelbladt</media:title>
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		<title>Ted Kennedy &#8220;last politician with truly firm convictions&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/ted-kennedy-last-politician-with-truly-firm-convictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rina Kuusipalo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Holt (USA, AC 09-11)
 
To the believers, he was the liberal lion of the American senate; to his detractors, a bawdy caricature of the left wing. After dismissing these partisan divisions for simply what they are, petty divisions, one can’t deny the presence, the sheer command over politics in the United States, of Senator Edward [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=968&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rina Kuusipalo</media:title>
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		<title>&#8220;China has every reason to be optimistic&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/china-has-every-reason-to-be-optimistic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rina Kuusipalo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Floria Hau (Hong Kong, AC 08-10)
I still remember the time when the US complained about the Chinese government for keeping the Chinese currency (yuan) artificially weak, to give its exporters an unfair trade advantage, when China had already allowed the yuan to strengthen by about 20% against the dollar since loosening its fixed exchange rate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=966&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rina Kuusipalo</media:title>
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		<title>&#8220;No concept of past, present or future&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/no-concept-of-past-present-or-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gala von Nettelbladt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beth Green (UK, AC 08-10)
As I sit here trying to write my UCAS personal statement, I am finding it hard to explain why I want to study the course. It is horrible to think that in just a few months time someone will be reading these words and judging whether or not I deserve to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=957&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Six Days before going to RNC: Excitement and Fears</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/six-days-before-going-to-rnc-excitement-and-fears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gala von Nettelbladt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angelika Benz (Germany, RCN  09-11)
 
My name is Angelika and I’m attending Red Cross Nordic United World College from this summer on. The opportunity to get in touch with various different cultures, people from everywhere is a great chance and I’m glad I can take it.  Since it’s only six days to go until my big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=948&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prisoners of State: Would what worked for the U.S. in Pyongyang work in Beijing?</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/prisoners-of-state-would-what-worked-for-the-u-s-in-pyongyang-work-in-beijing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rina Kuusipalo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Jennifer Leong (Hong Kong, AC 06-08)
 
“Is it naïve to talk to despots like Kim Jong Il, or is it worse to ignore them?”[1]
 
This is a question asked by many across the world following the release of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, two American journalists sentenced to hard labor in North Korea for entering the country [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=938&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rina Kuusipalo</media:title>
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		<title>To a time, engraved in memory.</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/to-a-time-engraved-in-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zainabsyed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zainab Syed, Pakistan (AC 08-10)
To say that this place doesn’t change you, that the friends you make weather over time, that this isn’t one of the best times of your lives, to say any of that, would be so far from this reality that is ours.
Twenty, Thirty and even Forty years later, older and maybe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=940&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On education and intercultural understanding</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/on-education-and-intercultural-understanding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rina Kuusipalo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ken Corn (teacher, United States, AC) and Lodewijk van Oord (teacher, Netherlands, AC)
 
Introduction
Amidst the burgeoning literature on the role of culture in human affairs, it is possible to identify a dominant perspective which appears to accept the inevitability of cultural difference in the realm of human thought and behaviour. Within this view, cultural heritage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=936&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rina Kuusipalo</media:title>
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		<title>&#8216;Hasta la victoria siempre!&#8217; &#8211; impressions of Cuba</title>
		<link>http://interuwcmag.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/hasta-la-victoria-siempre-impressions-of-cuba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rina Kuusipalo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hannah Smithies (UK, AC 08-10)
Cuba is at an interesting stage of its history. With Obama’s election coinciding with Castro’s decline, there is potential for great change on this controversial island. Although officially Fidel Castro is still in power, he hasn’t been seen in public for some time and as one woman we met said, “He’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=interuwcmag.wordpress.com&blog=1286382&post=933&subd=interuwcmag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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