George Erik Rupp (born September 22, 1942)[1] is an American educator and theologian, who served successively as president of Rice University, Columbia University, and the International Rescue Committee. (wikipedia)
I think it's terribly important that a moderate group of business leaders has come out in favor of fixing what clearly is broken, namely our system of financing congressional campaigns.
The result is that we are less prepared than we would like to be for what could be a very serious humanitarian emergency.
I think because there are real Indian and Pakistani constituencies in the United States , we'll wind up with money for earthquake relief that may be somewhat above the norm for these kinds of forgotten disasters. I think donors still have some spare change in their pockets.
