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...conscience of Nigeria,” said W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. in his welcome speech, “If democracy in…the world??s most populous black nation has a voice and a face, they belong to Wole Soyinka...
With his formal installation in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI took his place as the spiritual leader of the world??s 1.1 billion Catholics. His young reign, however, has already shown embryonic symptoms of a perennial papal predisposition—the urge to involve the church in the temporal affairs of sovereign states...
This season, Harvard’s O’Donnell Field has served as a sort of nerve-center for some of the world??s most eclectic walk-up music...
...this argument sounds familiar, it should: Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto expresses a similar view in “The Mystery of Capital,” which pinpoints a lack of formal property rights as a main culprit behind the developing world??s stagnation. Like his compatriot, Vargas Llosa heaps praise on the ingenuity of Latin America’s poorest, especially the shantytown residents who have organized to provide basic services to the disenfranchised. Still, he considers them incapable of generating the sort of structural change key to breaking the region’s cycle of misery...
...more striking things about this case was the subculture of homeless youths that frequented the ‘Pit,’” he said. “It was just so striking to us that in the shadow of the world??s greatest university and a few blocks from Brattle Street and million-dollar homes that you had this band of runaways and drifters...