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What else links our choices? How different they all are. To the extent that the U.S. is a land of the utmost diversity, a transmission point through which the energies and intuitions--the people--of every other nation pass, it enjoys what economists call competitive advantage in the global balance of talent. So the best American director can hail from Taiwan, the best American artist can be an African American who takes inspiration from village crafts in Sierra Leone and the best American fashion designer can be a kid from Texas whose showrooms are in Paris and London...
...translators (the strongman had been a banker before he became president, and prides himself on his command of English). His performance on Tuesday suggests he plans to do his best to turn his trial into a political tribunal of his nemeses, and he'll almost certainly do his utmost to embarrass the Western powers who at different points in the '90s treated him variously as the guarantor of Balkan stability and the fount of Balkan instability...
Alternatively, he’ll follow the example of his predecessor and receive the report with a smile and a handshake, promise to take it under the utmost consideration, and then bury it under all those letters to prospective donors...
...Europeans recognize the inevitability of Washington proceeding with missile defense, but they'll do their utmost to ensure that the U.S. reaches an understanding with Russia over the issue and preserves the existing arms-control framework in some form. Missile defense requires the upgrading of U.S. radar facilities in Britain and Denmark, and those countries are unlikely to stand in Washington's way despite the negative reaction to the scheme in European public opinion...
...they’re not bothered if I play the jazz program on the BBC, because, as a Westerner, I’m past all punishment, I can’t be saved, I’m going to hell.” In Liberia, citizens have the utmost reverence for the United States and wait eagerly for the aid they expect. “Liberians don’t know that most Americans couldn’t guess on which of the seven continents they actually reside, that images of their war have rarely been shown on U.S. television...