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Blog Entries by Conrad Black from 12/2012

Can Obama Improve America's Reputation? (Debate)

| Posted 12.11.2012 | World
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Will America's reputation and influence abroad improve under Barack Obama's second term? Two foreign-policy thinkers debate the question.

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Poverty and the Presidency: Uruguay's Jose Mujica

| Posted 12.27.2012 | World
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Uruguay's President Jose Mujica, a guerrilla in the 1960s and '70s who was imprisoned under severe conditions for 14 years, seems to be one of a rare breed of sincere anti-materialists, who thinks that the pursuit of wealth beyond a minimum is the root of most evil in the world.

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