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...while Russia's relations with the U.S. have been thawing since Barack Obama took over the White House, E.U.-Russia relations remain frosty. Talks about a new bilateral treaty on political and economic cooperation have made little headway. Hopes for a free trade agreement between Brussels and Moscow have withered after Russia last week put its application for membership in the World Trade Organization on ice. E.U.-Russia energy cooperation remains stuck, which increases the risk of yet another gas crisis this year. Europeans have responded to Moscow's ideas about constructing a "new European security architecture" with a distinct...
...your story on Barack Obama's plan for health-care reform [June 29]: I am embarrassed that my Senators, Jon Kyl and John McCain, are fighting so hard to maintain the status quo on health care and health insurance. Their employer, the U.S. government, is the single payer in their system, but if the rest of us were to get exactly the same coverage, it would be--gasp!--Socialized Medicine. I have to assume these gentlemen have no idea what it would cost to replace their coverage, given their ages and pre-existing conditions, in the free market they admire...
...June 24, ABC debuted a controversial new medical drama: Barack Obama, M.D. Actually titled Questions for the President: Prescription for America, the town-hall forum sat the POTUS down to field questions about his plans to overhaul the health-care system. Before it aired, Republicans criticized it as an infomercial that would allow Obama to sell his platform to a vast prime-time audience...
...introductory phase of Barack Obama's foreign policy ambitions concluded on July 11 before the Ghanaian Parliament, when a solo trombonist sounded a few ceremonial notes. Obama had just finished his fourth major address on international affairs in as many months, and a few hours later, he would depart home to Washington from his fourth overseas trip...
...offering up his international vision, a hodgepodge of classic realpolitik, diplomatic determination, community-organizer idealism and charismatic leadership. He has presented what he hopes will become a new public identity for the U.S., less global leader than global facilitator, less savior than responsible partner. (Read "The Five Faces of Barack Obama...