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Mangok Bol, who works as a resident assistant at the University of New Hampshire, checked students out of their rooms for the end of the spring semester.

Overcoming all odds

Sudanese refugees celebrate a college graduation

By Jenna Russell
Globe Staff / May 21, 2006

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DURHAM, N.H. -- When Moses Ajou, Mangok Bol, and Jacob Mabil arrived at the University of New Hampshire four years ago, they had never touched a computer keyboard. Like the other young refugees resettled in the US five years ago after fleeing war-ravaged Sudan, Ajou, Bol, and Mabil owned no sweaters. They struggled to understand English spoken with a Boston ... (Full article: 856 words)

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