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ST. OLAF MAGAZINE<br />
Fall 2016 · Volume 63 · No.3<br />
EDITOR:CaroleLeighEngblom<br />
ARTDIRECTOR:DonBratland'87<br />
COPY EDITOR: Laura Hamilton Waxman<br />
C O N T R I B U T I N G W R I T E R S : Marla<br />
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changes and corr<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=1"> FALL 2016 ST.OLAF E N I Z A G A M GLOBALLY ENG</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=2"> 24 32 ON THE COVER Oles Rose Doda '19 and Siyab</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=3"> ST.OLAF MAGAZINE FALL 2016 2 Letter </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=4"> FROM THE DESK OF PRESIDEN</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=5"> SPOTLIGHT R ESPONDING TO </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=6"> BLUE SKIES IN BEIJING Beijing, China · Robert Han</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=7"> THE 2016 GIMSE INTERNATIONAL AND OFF-CA</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=8"> LANZHOU DANCERS AT NIGHT </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=9"> RAINY DAY IN BANGKOK Bangkok, Thailand Sydney Run</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=13"> “Our visit to the desert offered a glimpse into t</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=14"> ORGANIZED CHAOS Chennai, India Sarah Barton '17 B</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=15"> DEFIANT HOPE The Hill of Crosses, Šiauliai, Lithu</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=16"> Politics PROSE C-SPAN HOST PETER SLEN '85 BELI</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=20"> After graduation, Slen landed an internsh</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=21"> Terry Murphy, C-SPAN's vice president of </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=22"> Slen sees C-SPAN as an important source in today'</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=23"> As a journalist, he believes it's his dut</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=24"> SPOTLIGHT Tulsa Douglas '18 Captain, St. Olaf Vo</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=25"> F A L L 2 0 1 6 22 33 FALL 2016</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=26"> 22 44 S T . O L A F M A G A Z I N E S</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=27"> POLITICO NSIDER ANNA PALMER ’04, ONE OF THE MOS</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=29"> I n a way, Palmer seemed destin</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=30"> Politico Playbook co-authors Jake Sherman (left) </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=31"> While Palmer hadn't gone into the job wit</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=32"> 30 ST.OLAF MAGAZINE</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=33"> In the end, Palmer's powerful combination</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=35"> zOo\OoZ From the Heart </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=36"> HOMAS RUSERT '06 HAS RECEIVED a lot of advice in </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=37"> Rusert has made himself available to his Doyle</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=38"> A week later, Rusert tried again at Dunki</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=39"> S INCE THEN, HE HAS PRAYE</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=40"> “That was the encounter that woke me up t</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=41"> A LASTING LEGACY “We have devoted our lives to</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=42"> BEYOND THE HILL Alumni Achievement Awards Ea</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2016Fall page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c150a378?page=43"> realize that the con- ventional wisdom on some im</a>
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