May 31, 2002

A University on the Edge of the Sahara Struggles to Become an Intellectual Oasis

By DANIEL DEL CASTILLO

In Mauritania, the country's hopes are pinned to a desolate campus

From this hot, dusty city, the desert seems to stretch to infinity. When the

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wind blows, sand slides down every street of this sprawling, haphazard collection of low-rise

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