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fresh air | Mr. Obama on the world stage

“We exercise our leadership best when we are listening, when we recognise the world is a complicated place ... when we show some element of humility and when we recognise we may not always have the best answer but we can always encourage the best answer.” Barack Obama, London, G20 Summit, 02 April, 2009. Financial Times

"Money Doesn't Talk. It swears."

Amid all the experts who failed to call this disaster, only one got it right. It was Bob Dylan, who said: “Money doesn’t talk. It swears.” — Bob Geldof in Financial Times

WE'RE NUMBER...15

What rich countries gave in foreign aid in 2208 as a percentage of GDP.

teenage drunkenness in 30 countries

From The Economist, 30 March, 2009

how do you solve a problem like communicating the true character of financial derivatives and other challenges for the new US president

A useful opinion piece by known lefty James Carville

15-year-olds + their electronic toys

The story is, this site was developed by a 15-year-old to enable users to stream and organize audio from YouTube directly to PCs. Conventional wisdom is you c heck it out before it disappears for the lack of blessings from Google, the record companies and the various rights holders to the songs.

Generation OMG

And this, from the New York Times writer Kate Zernike

a tidal wave of homeless students

rack Obama | Lincoln Birthday Speech | 12 February, 2009 | Part 02

Barack Obama | Lincoln Birthday Speech | 12 February, 2009 | Part 01

Just brilliant