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Thursday, February 7, 2013
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Diane McCarthy

Alumnus Vladimir Duthiers� journalism career has come full circle

Vladimir Duthiers has heard the saying, �The key to immortality is living a life worth remembering.� It was these words, in part�oft-quoted, and variously attributed to Bruce Lee, Jesus, and St. Augustine�that led him out of a successful career in finance and back to his true passion.

In September of 1987, Duthiers, the son of Haitian immigrants living in New York, came to URI as a journalism major. He quickly became involved in media, writing for The Good Five-Cent Cigar and hosting a program on the campus radio station. A keen interest in his history and political science classes eventually led him to change his major. He continued to take journalism classes, as well as military science courses as...

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