But Gabriel Oddone, an economist at the University of the Republic, is more sanguine.

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He has also been appointed at Michigan State University, CERGE-EI (Prague, Czech Republic), the University of Warsaw, Central University of Venezuela and Mohila Academy University of Kiev.

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Hajdu, the music critic for The New Republic and a professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism, mainly focuses on the latter implications of his title: how a double-page photo in Time magazine sabotaged Eckstine's career.

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Savita's death, a week after her admission to the University Hospital in Galway, once again focussed international attention on the Republic of Ireland's abortion laws.

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According to economist Steve Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics, at Johns Hopkins University, the Republic is the first country in the Middle East to ever have hyperinflation -- defined as an economy seeing its monthly inflation rate soar 50% or more each month.

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