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...dispute centers on the federation's decision to reduce its funding for Davis' training because he wears on his uniform the logo of Netherlands-based bank DSB, which is not an official U.S. speed-skating team sponsor. "Speed skating has lots of potential to be a big sport," says Davis--who, although he is relatively unknown in the U.S., has a broader following in Europe, where the sport is popular. The U.S. Speedskating officials, he complains, "don't want to grow in a way where they have five or six Shani Davises." The organization's officials say they are disappointed...
...Scotland in 2000. At the time, Congress was considering legislation that would have restricted Internet gambling, and with it the livelihoods of some of Abramoff arranged for two of them?a Choctaw Indian tribe and the gambling-services company eLottery Inc.?to each contribute $25,000 to the sponsor of the trip, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative nonprofit foundation on whose board Abramoff sat. They wrote their checks on May 25, 2000?the very day that DeLay departed...
...have been living through a schizophrenic period," says Carlos Toranzo, a Bolivian political analyst. "We have more democracy, more respect for human rights but also increased inequality and higher unemployment." And the popular blame is being directed at what many in Latin America think of as the sponsor of globalization, the U.S. "I've not seen anything quite like this sudden loss of face," says Terry Karl, a Latin America expert at Stanford University. "The U.S. just isn't setting the agenda anymore in Latin America...
Each day, the Gates foundation receives about 140 requests for money or help. (It was a major sponsor of the TIME Global Health Summit, held in New York City in November.) Until now, the foundation has focused on education, libraries, global health and Seattle-area initiatives. But it may soon add water, sanitation and hygiene or financial services for the poor to the portfolio. Bill says he would also like to learn more about the Middle East and Asia. And he claims he will continue to increase the amount of time he devotes to the foundation. While it spends only...
...behind the altar to slip into the newly agreed-upon outfits, short-shorts over fishnets, and matching lime-Green “Fifteen Minutes” T-shirts. Fee pops open the day’s fifth can of Diet Coke. “Coke should so be our sponsor,” he quipped, chasing a nugget of beef jerky with the aspartame-filled brew...