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LEADERSHIP The Measure of the Men There are plenty of other issues that Obama will want to cover with his hosts - Afghanistan, energy, North Korea, climate change and trade. But perhaps the President's greatest challenge during his trip will be to get the measure of Russia's two rulers. Bush famously looked into Putin's soul during their first meeting, in Slovenia in 2001, and "found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy," a judgment that quickly looked hopelessly naive. Obama will want to gauge the true nature of the Putin-Medvedev duopoly. See pictures of Putin...
...stable and well-off. But they also believe that the economic crisis might bring opportunities for a political rapprochement. Some hope that the recession might just make the Russian leadership a little more humble or at least trigger reforms that would make it easier for the E.U. to strengthen trade and investment links...
...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...
...understand your desire to trade white marble for White Mountains.' JOHN ROBERTS, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, bidding farewell to Justice David Souter, who left the bench on June...
...want to change history. We want to add to it.' JOSEPH ALMEIDA, a Rhode Island state representative, on a referendum to cut the second part of the state's official name--Rhode Island and Providence Plantations--which calls to mind the colony's role in the slave trade...