Reflections on Thanksgiving in America

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Originally appeared in the Huffington Post on  11/29/2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alemayehu-g-mariam/reflections-on-thanksgivi_b_789011.html In 1620, one hundred and two prospective settlers left England and set sail for over two months to come to the New World. They landed in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts. Nearly one-third of them were religious dissenters escaping persecution. A group of English investors had…

Lessons From Columbia U.

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Originally appeared in the Huffington Post on  10/03/2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alemayehu-g-mariam/lessons-from-columbia-u_b_748623.html “Let Ethiopians Debate Ethiopia” Following Meles Zenawi’s speech at Columbia University on September 22, Prof. William Easterly of New York University expressed his delight in seeing Ethiopians “participating in a debate about Ethiopia.” In his AID WATCH blog under the title “Lessons after the Meles Speech…