To bring matters into astate context about business, a large portion of the popular state-sponsored Pure Michigan business campaign focuses on Ann Arbor and southern Michigan. (As I write this, the main article on the Michigan.org website is of Ann Arbor).
However, there has been a growing sense that neither Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert nor Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has enough support among his own people to enable them to make the kind of compromises necessary to bringabouta viable Palestinian state next to a secure Israel.
There was something delicious about taking a Boston Red Sox player and funding his tech startup so that it would bring hundreds of jobs across state lines.