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What Sparked the Student Protests in South Africa?

October 13th, 2016 University of Witwatersrand (Wits University) on Monday, protesters throwing rocks were dispersed by riot police using tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades. (Photo credit: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images) Monday, October 10, 2016 was supposed to be the

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The New Normal in the 21st Century

September 22nd, 2016 Police Robot sent on the mission to deactivate/detonate the suspicious object. The “new normal” paid me a visit on September 20, 2016 at 7:02 AM PST. My husband and I woke to the sound of our neighbor

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How many countries?

August 5th, 2016 The Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute, Inc. (ACEI), was founded in 1994 and is based in Los Angeles, CA, USA. ACEI provides a number of services that include evaluations of international academic credentials for U.S. educational equivalence, translation,

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10 Facts about the now defunct Trump University

March 5th, 2016 With Donald Trump taking center stage in the upcoming Presidential Elections, stories of his now defunct Trump University have been resurrected and making the rounds in the news. In this week’s blog we offer you a few

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Morels and the Mujahideen

January 29th, 2015 How is the spread of militant, jihadist, Salafist Islamic fundamentalists like the seemingly random outcroppings of mushrooms in a forest? And why on earth would anyone ask that question! Visualize the Internet as a literal, humongous net

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Tinariwen, The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer

November 13th, 2014 Tinariwen’s Emmaar (2014) Tinariwen, The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer sounds like a gruesome scene from the Kel Tamashek uprising of 1963 in northern Mali that saw the death of messianic Tinarwen frontman Ibrahim Ag Alhabib’s parents

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Free Education in Germany: Dispelling Myths and Misconceptions

October 9th, 2014 German Chancellor Angela Merkel with German Students Photo credit: AP/Michael Probst Germany recently announced tuition free higher education across the country for its citizens and international students attending state/public institutions. This news has stirred many here in

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20 Interesting Facts about Mongolia

April 17th, 2014 Mongolia lies in central Asia between Siberia on the north and China on the south. It is a land full of vast emptiness, nearly twice the size of Eastern Europe and with a population of 3,226,516 (2013

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20 Facts About Turkey

June 07, 2013 In light of the protests that have erupted in Turkey against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, we wanted to share a few facts about this country situated at the northeast end of the Mediterranean

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America’s Jazz Ambassadors

May 16, 2013 During the cold war in the 1950s and 60s, when America was worried about Sputnik, ICBMs, and building bomb shelters, there was a quiet but determined cultural diplomacy going on behind the Iron Curtain. The U.S. State

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