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Please remember in your prayers Dr. Harry Webb, a photographer, filmmaker and associate professor of education whose association with the University of St. Thomas spanned half a century. Webb had been...
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In 2006, Mike Hanson had had enough. His marriage was failing. He struggled with underemployment. And too often he sought respite in alcohol. Hanson is blind. Born three months premature, he has been...
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Most 15-year-old boys who saved $600 from a summer job in the early 1970s would have been content to tuck the money into a savings account and earn 5 percent interest. Not Andrew Duff. He wanted to...
View ArticleFrom Here to Eritrea
In a room with 11 White House Champions of Change, Semhar Araia ’99 was meeting with the president. Her cohort that day in April 2012 included individuals who had dedicated their lives to causes such...
View ArticleLast Flight Out of Saigon
Be humble. Stay hungry. And always listen to your mother. Thanh Pham took his mom’s advice to heart. Xuan Nguyen fled war-torn Vietnam in the spring of 1975 with her husband, Yen Pham, and their three...
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For Winger Chidthachack, a high-ranking Army official in Communist Laos, the decision to leave was a difficult one. After saving money for three years, Winger, his wife, Bounmy, and their two daughters...
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LITTLETON, COLORADO Frank DeAngelis entered Columbine High School during the last full year of President Jimmy Carter’s tenure in 1979. Back then DeAngelis was a social studies teacher. In 1996, he...
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