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Mike Pilewski writes: "The U.S. government is using Miss America, fortune cookies and Twitter to try to reach every last person."

Obama's government by consensus

Mike Pilewski writes: "In Kenya, Barack Obama would be a fantastic president. But in America, what he's doing is just not working."

Lots of Eurocrats are needed to rule them.

Fewer British Eurocrats in Brussels in future

Britain's Department of Business, Innovation and Skills says that it will spend its money "on helping young people wanting to go to university for the first time". But this is bad news for UK graduates who want to become bureaucrats in Brussels.

Obama's speech: same old, same old

Mike Pilewski says Barack Obama's State of the Union address was almost the same speech he gave last February. Not much has changed in the US.

Man of the people, senator-elect Scott Brown, 50, Republican, Massachusetts.

Sexy Scott is driving his truck to Washington

Glamour! Scott Brown is married to a Boston television celebrity, Gail Huff, while Ayla, one of his two daughters, was a semi-finalist on American Idol in 2007. Politics! Senator Brown is now getting ready to drive his truck from Massachusetts to Washington, DC.

A good neighbor to Haiti

Mike Pilewski writes: "Sometimes you wish your neighbors would mind their own business, but when something goes wrong, as in Haiti, you're happy to have them."

Replay: British government hard on soft drugs Premium-Inhalt

Radio journalist Romie Singh joins us this week to take a look at a recent report by the British government on the use of drugs.
"And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson!" Lyrics by Simon and Garfunkel; photo by Kinowelt

It was a little secret, just the Robinsons' affair

Iris Robinson, 60, had an affair with a 19-year-old. Coincidentally, the Simon & Garfunkel song "Mrs Robinson" came out in 1968, when Iris Robinson was... 19. It was also the year when the people of Northern Ireland began their religious war.

20 steps to world peace

Mike Pilewski: "Haufenwolke says I don't deserve to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. So I've decided to increase my efforts."

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Debate
6. Is President Obama keeping his promises? (see pp. 28-29)

Travel
7. Shop and save in New York City (excerpt; p. 32)

 

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