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When I was growing up in Copenhagen, my mother had a three row Peugeot station wagon to accommodate six children and two dogs. After twenty years and about 300,000 miles and countless overhauls and repairs, it was time to let go. The beloved chariot, apparently no longer reparable or
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At a soccer match on Sept. 4, 2016, the Democratic Republic of Congo beat the Central African Republic 4-1. Yet the mostly Congolese audience at Kinshasa' soccer stadium, the largest in Africa, had something else on its mind. Around 80,000 people broke out in chants of "Kabila
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Sept. 1, 2016 At the NewBostonPost, September means heading "back to campus." As Boston bustles with the arrival of approximately 250,000 students attending the more than 50 colleges and universities, our attention is turned to stories about our institutions of higher learning and life on campus.
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Mother Teresa, the most recent Catholic saint, is, indeed, a saint for all. Catholic, or not, people around the world know Mother Teresa of Kolkata as a woman who gave her life to tending to the abandoned and desperate. The Missionaries of Charity, an order founded in 1950 by the
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This month, the NewBostonPost is focusing on foreign policy. Much has changed in the world since Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." The specter of communism has vanished, defeated by those who recognized its inherent evil, its credibility destroyed by the close
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This summer, discussions about America's role in the world have reached fever pitch. In fact, it has become near impossible to recognize a clear message within the noise of bold, and sometimes contradictory, statements about the proposed future of US foreign policy. The world is consumed by chaos:
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In the wake of the Supreme Court decision that struck down abortion clinic regulations in Texas in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, pro-choice activists all over the country are ecstatic. The law that obligated abortion clinics to ensure proper medical care to women in case of complications arising
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July 1, 2016, This month, as we celebrate American independence, the NewBostonPost will focus on the theme of democracy. In a way, like all roads "leading to Rome," all questions that we care about ultimately lead to the over-arching question of democracy's meaning. The way in