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Terrorism Takes Center Stage at Model U.N. Forum
Monday, March 18, 2002
By Suzanne Moore
Press Republican Staff Writer

"I thought I had really prepared," Liz Paola said. "But you get some kids who live and breathe U.N. ..."

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In one room, the topic was biological weapons; in another, the speaker labeled Palestinian violence "terrorism."

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"Even if you didn’t prepare for this year," said Liz Paola, co-secretary general of the 25th North Country Model U.N., "you have some sense of what’s going on."

More than 400 students representing 40 countries crowded into Northeastern Clinton Middle High School for the mock United Nations session last week, an event shaped in large part by the Sept. 11 terrorism.

* education in terrorism
* experience
* mideast debate
* more meaning
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