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When Edwards suddenly announced last week that he would accept public matching funds - and with it, the campaign finance law's spending restrictions - he portrayed it as a move of conviction. "This is not about a money calculation," Edwards told CNN. "This is about taking a stand, a principled stand, and I believe in public financing...
...people who have historically been associated with what has taken place in this country, before we came to power. And these were the people who were praising Rwanda for progress, which was not there at all. It's like today: always criticizing Rwanda and the government and not accepting the improvements or that Rwanda is much better today than it has ever been I believe they are doing that because they are defensive. They created the wrong impression of Rwanda, they were part of this very tragic history, they carry a responsibility on their shoulders. So they don't want...
...suspicion about aid. "In the last 50 years, you've sent $400 billion in aid to Africa, but if you look back, what is there to show for it?" he asks. "Why should the West spend so much without bothering whether that is making a difference? How does Africa accept that its affairs are run by ngos and other groups from outside? It's really something that needs to be corrected." So Rwanda is trying to build a new model of development. Though foreign assistance makes up around a third of Rwanda's gdp, Kagame refuses to limit himself...
...their five-day meeting in New Orleans, the Episcopal House of Bishops made their response to three demands presented by the Communion's leaders last February: that the generally liberal U.S. church accept the Communion input in creating conservative bishops to pastor some of its more disaffected members; that it cease to make any more gay bishops, as it did in 2003 with the Right Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire; and that it stop blessing same-sex union ceremonies...
...that a solution would be found soon. Developing countries insist with much justification that they can't be expected to constrain their growing economies to slow carbon emissions, but it's difficult to see how citizens in developed countries - and not just in the SUV-loving United States - will accept strict limits while their economic competitors in India and China are allowed free rein. Nor is there much time to figure it out. "We only have two years to reach an agreement on post-Kyoto, and only three years to prepare the ground," says Achim Steiner, the executive director...