For decades, now, professors of political theory have squabbled over whether liberty or virtue should be the foundation of American politics.

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Yet they also feel that passively turning over billions to a foundation of the sort left behind by Rockefeller or Ford is a cop-out.

FORBES: The Radical Philanthropist

But if Panama's boom is to propel it swiftly to developed-country status over the next decade or so, it would help if it rested on a stronger institutional foundation.

ECONOMIST: A country revamped as a service hub grows at Chinese rates

In 2002, a survey by the Pew Hispanic Centre and the Kaiser Family Foundation found that over 90% of second-generation Hispanics were either bilingual or mainly English-speaking, split equally between the two.

ECONOMIST: The Americano dream