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Just who is being saved by the dynamic trio's efforts? Unless we cancel the debts of the poorest nations so that resources can be invested in health and education, we are simply bailing water without fixing the leak. STEPHEN VALK Atlanta...
Cuomo spoke about how America has abandoned its poorest citizens. He evoked for his audience the much-vaunted 40 million working Americans who don't have health insurance, along with the millions of schoolchildren subsisting on a sub-par education, in an era when we are faced with not only a booming economy but an actual budget surplus, an era when prosperity should have rendered these problems moot. Nothing in his speech was new; none of his statistics were shocking. Democrats in the audience surely agreed with most of Cuomo's ideas; Republicans, predictably, would have loved to debate...
...money spent so far on investigating Clinton and on his impeachment trial could have been used to feed countless hungry people as well as build schools, roads and hospitals in some of the poorest countries of the world. For the U.S. to waste so much money on a useless exercise only emphasizes the gap between rich and poor nations. LOREDANA LAWSON Zanzibar, Tanzania...
These differences are significant, but the stratification--like that between society's richest and poorest citizens--occurs on a continual basis...
...thing you'll notice is Encarta Africana's upbeat tone. While it faithfully charts tragedies such as the slave trade, race riots in the U.S. and genocide in Rwanda, it never sinks into despair. An essay on Haiti, for example, informs readers not only that the country is the poorest in the Americas but also that it became the world's first black republic when it gained its independence from the French...