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Like so many people, David Damrosch found his travel plans upended by COVID in the spring of 2020. But Damrosch,聽chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and founder of the University s Institute for World Literature, qu
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ickly rebounded from disappointment to inspiration, embarking on a literary journey around the globe.Every week of the first pandemic summer, Damrosch explored a different city, country, or region through five books in a blog
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that won followers near and far. His essays have now been revised into Around the World in 80 Books, which borrows the organizing
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principle, along with the title, of Jules Verne s Around the World in 80 Days. I m a preacher s kid and I have a very evangelical sense that I want everybody to love these books that I love, Damrosch said. In this time of rising walls and neo-nationalisms, I really feel that the literature is a means of ascent into the way other people think. The book, his first for a general audience, guides readers throu Iawo Two doctoral candidates awarded Gilder Lehrman Fellowships
Addressing the Assembly s annual debate, Madagascar s President Marc Ravalomanana called for African countries to receive the same amounts of aid that the ravaged economie
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s of Western Europe received under the Marshall Plan following World War II or the European Union EU extended to Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism. The sad reality is that Africa receives less international assistance 鈥?per capita 鈥?than 20 years ago, he said, recommending a doubling or tripling of annual support in the short term.Mr. Ravalomanana
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said that while poor governance, instability and internal conflicts in recent decades have contributed to Africa s conti
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nuing poverty, the reduction of aid since the mid-1980s is the one of the biggest factors. We have even heard proposals for further reduction of international assistance so that developing countries become much more independent quickly, he said, adding it is a fundamental misunderstanding. To become independent, developing countries need m