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Soviet-Afghan war and the rise of global terrorism

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North Face promotional strategy and 2010 sales growth plan

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Feminine identity and agency in Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time

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Overcoming complacency and resistance to change at Cincom Systems

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Robinson and Golding on the nature of human thinking

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Child soldiers in Burundi and Sudan during the 1990s civil wars

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Pentecostal churches and Catholic decline in Brazil

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Grant proposal for Saint Anselm's Cross Cultural Center health expansion

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Effects and challenges of Americans living in Muslim-dominated countries

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Nationalist agendas and reproductive policy in postsocialist Poland

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