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...says. He's also courting corporate America. In the last few years, Kagame has met with the bosses at Microsoft, Google, eBay, Starbucks, Costco, Merrill Lynch and Bechtel. He's hosted Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz and CEO Jim Donald, and in March was the star speaker at the coffee giant's AGM, at which he described Starbucks and Rwanda as parts of an "extended family very closely linked by the business we do together and the passion we share." Says Schilling: "It's like this great love affair. Rwanda is becoming America's African sweetheart...
Though Kagame's authoritarianism worries human-rights groups, the commercial world has no such qualms. American Chris Lundh is CEO of RwandaTel, the country's Internet and mobile-phone giant, and has worked in telecoms across Africa. Asked about Kagame's human-rights record, he replies: "So what? In Congo, they'd shoot them." Kagame and business, he says, prize the same thing: results. "There is a focus here. People whinge about the lack of political opposition. But if you look at what happened in 1994, lack of opposition looks pretty small fare." Dabbs Cavin, 42, a lawyer and commercial...
...read a lot of stuff—Hunter S. Thompson, Tim O’Brien, Patrick O’Brian, Terry Pratchett. I’m a giant nerd...
...course, Ahmadinejad is no simpleton. He knows precisely how to exploit one of the few powers he does possess, the power to offend. He gains status in Iran and in the Islamic world by sticking his thumb in the giant's eye. His Holocaust denial is a flagrant ploy - the easiest way to get a rise out of the Jewish community and, inevitably, U.S. politicians. Clearly, he benefits from his falsely inflated prominence. But who else does...
...there's a man! The New York Daily News, owned by neoconservative Mort Zuckerman, runs the headline the evil has landed. The cable news networks hyperventilate. Even the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, feels the need to demolish Ahmadinejad - elegantly, I must say - before the speech. A giant toxic bubble overwhelms the public square...