"Sometimes it seems that we -- Israelis and American Jews -- not only inhabit different countries but different universes, different realities, " Oren told an American Jewish Committee gathering in Washington of young supporters from around the world.
You will never be Jesse Helms the American system is different but good committee work performed with the appropriate mixture of independence and sycophancy can still impress the whips.
But American oil firms are a different matter: as Exxon has shown, so long as you sit on colossal oil reserves, they will always be happy to do business.
But the new American administration may have different ideas, especially if its Balkan policy is dominated by officials who made their names there in the Clinton years.
The spectacular ecological successes of the last 30 years have brought environmentalism into the American mainstream, but the movement is vastly different than the one that was gaining political and moral clout in the United States more than three decades ago.
Writing in The Economist, Will Wilkinson takes a close look at the differences not just between the American and Norwegian prison systems, but between two very different cultural attitudes toward justice.
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But you know the American people have moved to a different place.
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Then, move directly to the Italian-American clairnettist Buddy DeFranco, also recorded in 1953, but completely different.
The global market may be shifting toward a different axis of power, but the modern American employee is evolving to compete in this new world, regardless of where its center lies.
But even the most familiar American fast food joints can be surprisingly different abroad.
But Argentina's top officials and supporters in many Latin American countries have a different take.
Our challenges are different now, but if the 21st century is to be another American Century, we need leaders who understand that keeping the peace requires American strength in all of its dimensions.
It is true that Jorge salted the leadership with other self-made Cuban success stories, in part because he admired their achievements and in part because he wanted their contributions. (Is this really any different from Jewish, or Greek, or Turkish American organizations?) But it is also true that he never forgot the poor Cubans who sought to escape as he once did.
But the only way we do it is if the American people insist on a different approach and say to their elected officials, we expect you to act reasonably, and we don't expect you to get your way a hundred percent of the time, and we expect you to have strong convictions, but we also expect you to manage the business of the people.
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But as a party, we need to start unifying and tell the American people why we are different.
And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
When it comes, for example, from the West, everybody will start talk--well, this is an American story and--but when it comes from our television or our actors, it's completely different because it gives the story more credibility.
But GOP-hopeful Mitt Romney is hitting on a different angle, also one that the American people support: Giving away billions in taxpayer dollars to industries that would not otherwise be competitive, all at a time when the federal debt is the highest it has ever been.
For just as that American table tennis player pointed out -- we share much in common as human beings, but our countries are different in certain ways.
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