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By Anna Gawel
The Washington Diplomat
Anna Gawel is on vacation. Her column will return in April.
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Dollars for Alzheimer's
Special to the Diplomatic Pouch by Larry Luxner
If the latest grim statistics are correct, at least 90 of the 725 attendees at last week's National Alzheimer’s Gala will be struck with Alzheimer’s by the age of 65. Of those who make it to 85, around half will have contracted thememory-robbing illness...Read More |
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Cape Verde's Jewish Roots
Special to the Diplomatic Pouch by Larry Luxner
On March 18, more than 100 prominent local Jews crowded into the Potomac, Md., home of an Arab ambassador whose Muslim country has no diplomatic relations with Israel — to celebrate the Judaic roots of a Catholic West African nation that has no Jews...Read More |
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Congo: The Women of Africa's Forgotten Conflict
Special to the Diplomatic Pouch by Patrick Haggerty
In the past 20 years, Africa has seen more conflicts than most of the world has seen in the past century. But in the heart of the continent, a conflict that in that has claimed more than 5 million lives: the forgotten, brutal and complex conflict of the Congo...Read More |
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