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...human nature: self-interest and caring for others." By using his own wealth and influence to respond to world poverty in a meaningful way, Gates exemplifies the latter force. His initiatives (sharing technology, providing small- business loans, eradicating preventable diseases) make measurable differences. Thank you for providing a forum for him to share his ideas. Rebecca E. Hight, Penney Farms, Florida...
...that Obama is not Reagan. It may be that he is more like Al Smith, whose Roman Catholicism was too much for a Protestant nation to handle in 1928. But if Obama is going to win, he's got to demonstrate, in the most dramatic forum possible, that he has the brains and disposition to be President. And he has to get this campaign around to Reagan's classic question: Are you better off than you were four years ago? time.com/swampland
...world's best-selling books, The Purpose Driven Life, and the founding pastor of one of the country's largest churches, the 23,000-member Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. And on Aug. 16, he will play the role of national inquisitor in a "civil forum" featuring (consecutively, not in debate format) the two presumptive nominees for President, who will fly to Orange County, Calif., to be civilly grilled for an hour apiece. (See pictures of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America...
Last January Bill Gates gave a groundbreaking speech on "creative capitalism" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here's what we heard: one of the greatest capitalists in the history of the world suggesting that capitalism wasn't working all that well for almost half the people on the planet. He was in effect proposing a third way--the notion that profit and social responsibility were not mutually exclusive...
...they had been offered by allies of the country's ruling Congress Party to withhold their ballots in a crucial July 22 vote of confidence. While allegations of "suitcase politics" are nothing new in India, it just wasn't cricket to theatrically air dirty laundry in such a public forum. Afterward, Somnath Chatterjee, India's lower-house speaker, called it "a very sad day in the history of Parliament...