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...when Makatiani and a few Kenyan friends studying at Boston's M.I.T. built an online mailing list "so we could tell each other when we were going for dinner." Within a year more than 2,000 Kenyans around the world were mailing each other and receiving news from Kenya via a computer bought with donations from appreciative mailing list users. After finishing a degree in electrical engineering, Makatiani worked in software and as a consultant to a U.S. telecom company before a friend suggested he should turn the mailing list into a business. He formed a company with two Kenyan...
...billion in taxpayers' hands by the end of next year--a late nod to Democrats, who pushed to speed up relief in an effort to help fight off a recession. How that money will be distributed is an open question--probably either in a one-time check or via reduced income-tax withholding...
...Unfortunately, as the entire movie-going public knows all too well, Ben?s latest release will be very hard to ignore. However, as the movie itself insists on informing us via a mind-numbing array of explosions, fireworks and lame dialogue, we are, on film, anyway, a stubbornly optimistic nation, populated by heroes with indomitable spirits. And so we can turn what might otherwise be unproductive and crushing embarrassment for these young actors into hope. Specifically, hope that one of these celluloid heroes either signs up for an acting class - or, conversely, undergoes some unspecified life-altering experience that gives...
...Shui-bian made history a year ago when he was elected President of Taiwan, ending 55 years of Kuomintang rule. He's now honing his role on the global stage, as a key player in the cross-Strait drama and with a visit later this month to Latin America via the U.S. Chen sat down last week in Taipei for an interview with TIME editors and reporters. Edited excerpts...
Essentially that would transfer money from the government to oil companies, via consumers--not exactly a populist move. Bush could suffer if he fails to relate to the immediate needs of people like Walter Melendez, who pulls over to top off his tank whenever he sees his gas gauge drop below three-quarters of a tank. "I'm afraid it's going to be $4 next time," says Melendez, a computer technician in L.A., where radio waves are full of energy talk...