I’m eight months older than President Barack Obama, so we fall into the same generation. Of course, the similarities end there, including his ascent to a slightly higher administrative level than I will ever reach. Still, we share some things in common because we gained an awareness of the world around the same time, in [...]
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Lessons for Late Baby Boomers
by Tom ZeilerTuesday, January 26th, 2010
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A View from the Outside: Assessing Obama’s First Year as President
by Sandra ScanlonTuesday, January 26th, 2010
Barack Obama’s run for the presidency was observed by European publics perhaps more than any US election in recent history. Students, for whom the presidency of Bill Clinton was barely a memory and little more than a footnote introducing the Bush era, debated the relative merits of a Clinton or Obama nomination largely in terms [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, climate change, Cold War, Copenhagen, Europe, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, iran, iraq, Israel, Nobel Peace Prize, State of the Union, Taliban
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Weekly Digest – 10/6/09
by Nick DucoteTuesday, October 6th, 2009
Twenty political scientists have compiled a year-long study on American perception abroad. Has the “Obama Effect” really changed the way the world sees America? [more]
The appearance in Washington last week of Iran’s foreign minister, while the blood is not yet dry from his government’s continuing suppression of student protests, is a reminder of the disastrous [...]
Tags: al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Burma, China, currency, Dalai Lama, detente, Human Rights, iran, Oil, War on Terror
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