Howard Buffett's Food Fight
Howard G. Buffett directs a private family foundation that funds projects in over 65 countries. He also owns and operates a 1,400-acre farm in Illinois and has served on two United States Trade Representative Committees and in numerous executive positions. Buffett is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Against Hunger.
In his new book, Fragile: The Human Condition, the farmer-philanthropist offers up an unexpected solution for solving Africa's hunger problem. Plus, view photos of Buffett's philanthropic travels around the world and read more about his giving.
Obama's Murderous Guest
Fatima Bhutto is a graduate of Columbia University and the School of Oriental and African Studies. She is working on a book to be published by Jonathan Cape in 2010. Fatima lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan.
Besides ruining my country, I believe my aunt's husband, Pakistani President Zardari, orchestrated my father's murder. Is Obama really going to offer him billions more when they meet today?
Stop Funding My Failing State
Fatima Bhutto is a graduate of Columbia University and the School of Oriental and African Studies. She is working on a book to be published by Jonathan Cape in 2010. Fatima lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan.
When Pakisan's president visits the White House next week, he's sure to ask for another handout. But Fatima Bhutto, niece of the late Benazir Bhutto, says the billions of dollars the U.S. gives are merely propping up a government that's capitulating to terror.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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