Word: supportive
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Bill Drayton, 57, is widely credited with pioneering charitable support for "social entrepreneurs"--innovators whose ideas can leverage small cash investments into large and self-sustaining improvements in a society's health or education or housing. "We really don't want to be mistaken for a foundation," Drayton says somewhat disdainfully. "Philanthropy has been dominated by governments and foundation bureaucracies that have not evolved quickly enough and don't adapt well to changing demands from the field. We need to invent new institutions...
...tell-alls about Martha Stewart and Rock Hudson) doesn't have a great deal new to tell about the union. Oppenheimer's thesis--that the Clinton marriage was based from the start on an "intellectual blueprint" to win the presidency--is stale. But he has new evidence to support it, including on-the-record stuff from Marla Crider, a onetime Clinton girlfriend who clashed with Hillary in 1974 and has never discussed the situation publicly. And Oppenheimer has uncovered new material about Hillary's family background--an astounding amount, given that close to a dozen biographers have gone down this...
...night Bill lost his first campaign. His main source for the story has been interviewed by several other biographers, none of whom reports such a slur. Hillary dismisses the tale. But she has sown suspicion among some Jews by kissing the wife of Yasser Arafat and voicing support for Palestinian statehood. The story has already spurred tabloid headlines in New York. Now Rudy has a chance to express his empathy for Hillary...
...relief. The only thing holding back further relief for places like Bolivia is the U.S. Congress. And remember, debt relief is not charity. It is what the toughest financial institutions do when they make bad loans. It is also in the political and security interests of the U.S. to support the poorest countries in their struggle to join the world economy...
...Committee to Defend Healthcare (Saturday, July 29): Demonstration by medical professionals, labor unions and other activists in support of universal health care...