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...African nations' own policies have also been inadequate. In 2002, African Union leaders vowed to spend 10% of their annual budgets on agricultural development; few of the 53 member nations have consistently met that target. "We have been warning of the dangers for a long time," says Simon Scott, head of statistics for the OECD, which has tracked how several African countries have gone from being food exporters in the 1980s to relying heavily on foreign food aid today. In short, the world is suddenly hungry because of decades of neglect. "It is as much a question of complacency...
...rest of his economic platform. No matter what Hillary Clinton says about healing the Democratic Party, it seems clear the mistrust between Obama and her (and their respective supporters) runs deep. Finding common allies to smooth things over, like Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel, is essential. On the Republican side, Scott McClellan's book has infuriated many Republicans but has flustered them as well: If you can't trust a longtime Bushie like Scott not to be a turncoat, whom can you trust? The game of leisure chicken begins: Which candidate will take an extended vacation first? Preconvention...
...Earlier that spring Harvard’s senior class had invited King to speak at their Class Day exercises. His widow, Coretta Scott King, now had to come to Cambridge to speak in his place. On June 12, exactly one week after the Kennedy killing, Mrs. King admonished the Class of 1968 to “speak out with righteous indignation” against what she called “the forces which are seeking to destroy...
...Scott left the building, practically invisible in the noisy exodus of Messrs. Card, Rumsfeld, Rove, and Gonzales. Two years have elapsed since Bush bid his friend and mouthpiece farewell with this prediction: “One of these days, he and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas talking about the good old days of his time as the press secretary. And I can assure you, I will feel the same way then that I feel now, that I can say to Scott, job well done...
...while, it looked as though Bush’s predictive abilities might not be as bad as they seemed. In April of 2007, Scott McClellan reappeared on “Real Time with Bill Maher”—a private citizen, but still Bush’s proxy—to go head-to-head with former Sen. Bill Bradley. Repeatedly asked to lay out the rationale for the catastrophic war in Iraq, the once-and-future spokesman stammered back: “No, let me talk about where we are right now…We can do?...