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Whether Kenya can be pulled back from the brink will reveal much about Africa's future. The nation embodies the best and worst of the continent--its vitality and economic potential but also its poverty, corruption and tribalism. So long as those conditions persist, crises like the one afflicting Kenya will continue to haunt Africa, stunting its growth and hurting its people. The outcome in Kenya may well determine whether Africa's renaissance sustains itself--or turns into another nightmare...
...current President Bush who fights against applying that proven model to tackling climate change. Markets can and do solve public-sector problems. They have raised more people out of poverty than all the aid ever given. Yet anticapitalist climate cultists and the current White House persist in their condemnation of market-driven, business-based solutions to global warming...
...front of G.O.P. minds, while Democrats continue to focus on economic issues. There is one topic they care about equally: social and moral issues. But that's because they each oppose the other's views. Those gulfs between the two camps competing for the White House will persist well beyond the election, which is why how America decides is just as significant as whom it chooses...
...Comically, activists like Dines will persist in their quests, fearing we are on the brink of a pornography-induced apocalypse. “Laugh now,” Dines warned her Harvard audience, “but everything I’ve predicted has come true.” We’re quaking in our boots...
...what few Arab leaders would still do today: He declared a commitment to peace in his enemy’s den. His 28-minute plane ride from a military base near the Suez Canal to Tel Aviv permanently changed fears into hopes and transformed hate into trust. As rumors persist of a reprisal of Syrian-Israeli peace negotiations, it is wise to recall the dramatic effect of Sadat’s visit on a possible Arab-Israel peace. To prove his sincerity about living side by side in peace with Israel, President Bashar Assad of Syria should follow in Sadat?...