By Sarah Foster
April 21, 2015
They found her in the middle of the Syrian Desert.
She was 2 years old, lying abandoned on the side of the road, when a group of French nuns first approached her. They were there to save other stranded children just like her, hoping to bring them back to French orphanages for safety. Without a family o...
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By Sean Neumann
May 27, 2014
The Chicago Cubs hired former MLB superstar Manny Ramirez to be a player-coach for the Triple A Iowa Cubs this past weekend and despite the gut reaction, it wasn’t a mistake.
It was a shocking move for the Cubs to risk distraction for performance, but the latter doesn’t lie. He was at times contr...
By Brittney Nadler
May 7, 2014
Her name was Eleni, and she was just a toddler when she and her siblings fled Turkey barefoot with everything they could carry during the forced migration of the early 1920s.
With her brother at her side, disguised as a girl so the Turks wouldn’t take him, they set off toward boats that were sent to...
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