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		<title>Burn Marijuana, Burn!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of last year, I traveled into the rural Wakiso district in Uganda with a team of police officers, to watch them destroy several acres of marijuana. The plants were slashed with machetes, put in three-metre high piles, and then set on fire. In this lush rural area, plants and vines and trees [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/01/23/ugandas-police-force-burns-marijuana/</link>
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		<title>Some Goodbyes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They said they would come by my place yesterday afternoon and they did. Out of a small and very used Japanese sedan came a Rasta, a fashion designer, and an entourage. Our conservative Indian neighbors glared from the protection of their balconies. At my apartment, we prepared for the sudden influx of fashionable-ness by putting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/12/04/a-fashion-designer-an-entourage-and-some-goodbyes/</link>
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		<title>Little Girls in Pretty Dresses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most textiles and clothes are made in Asia, sold to the West, discarded in the West, and donated to charities who have too many dresses to know what to do with them. Then the charities send them to Africa. For example: Fictitious Original Owner: Cindy Showalker’s 8th birthday party in Miami, 1993. Cindy and her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/11/10/little-girls-in-pretty-dresses/</link>
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		<title>My Congolese Stalker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 7, 2007, I got an email from a man I had never met before. It began: Dear wife to be, Glenna Gordon, It is in the name of Jesus Christ, I am writing to you this message in order to let you know about my proposal wish just to you. And that was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/10/16/my-congolese-stalker/</link>
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		<title>Rosh Hashanah in Uganda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There&#8217;s a man here with one leg, five women, and thirty-two children,&#8221; Sarah Shambe tells me, on the day of Rosh Hashanah, as we walk away from Eid prayers to her two-room home in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda.  Sarah spent the morning praying in an open field with thousands of other Ugandan Muslims. Now [...]]]></description>
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