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<title>'Every day is Saturday'</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 18:08:18 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Toronto Blue Jays president &amp; CEO Paul Beeston, BA'67, LLB'94, on winning, losing and loving the game.]]></description>
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<title>A diplomat finds her calling</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:25:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As her native Zambia’s ambassador to the United States, Sheila Siwela, BA'79, represents the interests not only of her country, but of the African continent.]]></description>
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<title>The river runs deep</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:04:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The great rivers of the world are magnificent features slashing across whole continents: The Nile. The Amazon. And now the Rio Hamza in Brazil, named for the Western geophysics alumnus who found it recently - by accident.]]></description>
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<title>The will to win</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:48:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Silken Laumann, BA'89, reflects on her bronze medal win 20 years ago at the 1992 Olympics, known as one of the greatest comebacks in Canadian sports history.]]></description>
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<title>Never say never</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:22:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[He was told he didn't have the grades to get into Western, had no chance of winning his first election and was declared politically dead just months ago. So why is Tim Hudak, BA'90, still standing tall?]]></description>
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<title>Rock star</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:26:44 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Research at Western took Richard Léveillé to Hawaii, but this was no trip to the beach.]]></description>
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<title>The Cirque Life</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:28:33 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[He brought Coca-Cola to the Soviet Union one year before its collapse. And now Craig Cohon, BA’85, has brought Russians Cirque du Soleil.]]></description>
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