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Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare - CNN.com

At 84, American political scientist Gene Sharp has seen his lifelong work on nonviolent resistance echo around the world. London (CNN) -- It's a dark January evening, and in an anonymous townhouse…
PUBLISHED: June 25, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3326 words)
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The Gift of Charles - CNN.com

San Leandro, California (CNN) Forest Thompson lifts his 15-year-old son into a whirlpool. The boy can no longer speak. He can barely move. This is the last time Forest will ever hold him. Silence…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3775 words)

'Sacrificed for a future that never came': Family tragedy tells the story of Greece - CNN.com

Angeliki Papathanasopoulou was killed days after Greece got its first bailout, when the bank she worked in was torched during protests. She married Christos Karapanagiotis -- her partner of 13 years…
PUBLISHED: May 3, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2973 words)

Slavery's last stand

Moulkheir Mint Yarba escaped slavery in 2010. She has asked the Mauritanian courts to prosecute her slave masters. "I demand justice," she says, "justice for my daughter that they killed and justice…
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8203 words)
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