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...working with President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and the government of Liberia to improve the way government works and help build the capacity to secure the country's recovery. Already the Africa Governance Initiative, which I set up two years ago, works alongside President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Ernest Bai Koroma in Sierra Leone. They are examples of a new generation of pro-business, pro-reform African leaders, serious about rooting out corruption, protecting investors and leading more stable, better governed countries, convinced that a thriving private sector is a force for good. (See pictures of Africa's AIDS...
Andrew J. Breitbart, an editor at the Drudge Report who was a guest at IOP Fellow Ernest Istook’s study group yesterday, questioned the recent allegations of racism in the Tea Party movement...
...critics to complain that she's repeating herself. Yet this high-low priestess explains her new approach--the show is set in a nightclub and follows the relationships of four couples--by citing writers like Tolstoy and Balzac (she's been devouring both lately) as well as the Ernest Borgnine movie Marty (which provides the model for one of the couples). Ordinary theatergoers are likely to catch little of this. But they'll see a show that uses dance to make the best case possible for Sinatra's artistry--and delivers the purest jolt of pleasure to be found...
...Ernest J. Istook is a Resident Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics this spring and a Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He served as a U.S. Congressman for 14 years...
...Sleepless in Seattle, which starred Hanks) sent him the two-volume, 1,882-page Library of America Reporting World War II: American Journalism (1938 to 1946) as a gift. Hanks grew intensely interested in all things related to the Pacific campaign - not necessarily the big names like Tojo or Ernest King, but the 3rd Marine Division, which was ambushed by snipers at Guam, or the intricacies of Operation Detachment at Iwo Jima. Print journalists like Robert Sherrod (on Tarawa) and Ted Nakashima (on U.S.-Japanese concentration camps) were eye-openers. "I went on a reading rampage," he recalls. "There...