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Like many other African countries battling AIDS, Uganda is struggling to make the most of a sudden influx of dollars from First World donors like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, whose disease-fighting war chest just doubled in size, thanks to a $30 billion endowment from financier Warren Buffett. Uganda is planning to use its money to provide ARVs to every Ugandan who needs them, but the flood of money for medical care is running into a roadblock common in almost every Third World country: an infrastructure incapable of delivering it. In Uganda, for example, there is only...
...grinding and unpopular war in Iraq, a growing insurgency in Afghanistan, an impasse over Iran's nuclear ambitions, a brewing war between Israel and the Palestinians--the litany of global crises would test the fortitude of any President, let alone a second-termer with an approval rating mired in Warren Harding territory. And there's no relief in sight. On the very day that Bush celebrated 60, North Korea's regime, already believed to possess material for a clutch of nuclear weapons, test-launched seven missiles, including one designed to reach the U.S. Even more surprising than the test...
...donations and pledges made by Warren Buffett--and Bill and Melinda Gates, who have given nearly $26 billion to their foundation so far--eclipse those of other great U.S. philanthropists...
Investing guru Warren Buffett -- above right, with Bill and Melinda Gates -- announced last week that he will gradually transfer more than $30 billion of stock in his Berkshire Hathaway firm to the Gates Foundation, which works to improve global health and U.S. education. Each installment must be spent in the year it's given; the $1.5 billion pledge for 2006 will double the foundation's current spending--and boost its already powerful impact...
Converse is known for co-authoring many papers on election studies with other noted scholars including Angus Campbell, Warren E. Miller, Willard L. Rodgers, and Donald E. Stokes. His studies are not limited to the U.S.—he has spent time researching in Brazil, Canada, and France...