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...sometimes national governments around the world are not leaving matters to unfettered capitalism. Instead, some are investing public money or working to secure the corporate investment needed to build wireless Internet networks that use fledgling WiMAX technologies and, more often, mature wi-fi platforms. Singapore is "unwiring" using tax revenue. Macedonia is doing the same with the help of U.S. aid. Municipalities as diverse as Prague, Paris, Norwich, Dublin and Chicago are either building or attempting to build wireless networks with public funds...
...systems and education, and why we made the choice to promote science and technology. We are looking at how to modernize our agriculture and shift from that to other things. So we are looking agriculture, tourism, energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, mining. And we are looking at setting up institutions and tax regimes that are favorable to investors. And do all this not just looking at Rwanda. We are trying to present Rwanda as the heart of Africa, to [make Rwanda ] attractive as an access [point] to other markets in our region...
...resist comparing the America of 1957 with the America of 2007-- and finding the modern version wanting. There was a clear-eyed quality to the U.S. commitment to space and a frank understanding of what it would take to get there. This wasn't an effort built on tax credits for willing industries or bipartisan earmarking. It wasn't a program financed by cooked books or off-budget accounting. Most important, it was sustained by appealing not to what scared us but rather to what elevated us. There's no need to invoke WMD when...
...Bush would say: 'If you look at the growth of the economy - the tax cuts, the new jobs - I have nothing to be ashamed of in terms of managing the economy,'" Will said in an interview. "Conservatives would say: 'That's true, but it's the management of the government that you're paid...
...While most fiscal conservatives have given up on Bush, Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, said he still respects that Bush made tax cuts such a big priority and he's willing to give the President this one last shot to get it right. "I hear that they plan on focusing on this all fall and if he's drawn a line in the sand and he keeps it then that'll be hard to ignore," Norquist said. "We're Americans: We judge people by how they finish and not how they start...