King and Gandhi made it possible for all of us to be here today -- me as a President, you as a citizen of a country that's made remarkable progress.

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For all the mess it made of the US, it is still an unusual British business and British retailer in having made a success of initiatives in parts of the world where retailing culture and practice are very different from the UK (although a recent bashing in South Korea, due to regulatory changes, shows there will always be downs as well as ups).

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President Obama made clear tonight that it is critical that all of us work together to create jobs in America.

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And it has been all of us -- these assessments are not made by our impressions watching cable TV, they are made based on the assessments made by intelligence professionals.

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Fair enough, but at the very least it should be said that the growing interest among natives in our political affairs speaks ill of all of us, and it speaks to a nation that has forgotten what initially made it so great.

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Wriston, who died in 2005, knew what made the global economy tick, and happily for us, wrote it all down in a book called The Twilight of Sovereignty.

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