The following day, Mr Obama clarified those comments, saying that his remarks referred only to the right of Muslims to build their centre, not the wisdom of choosing a site so close to Ground Zero.

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George W. Bush would have to rethink the wisdom of placing his tax-cut plan centre-stage.

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In an unusually blunt new pamphlet for the Centre for European Reform, the former British diplomat and special envoy takes on several tenets of Brussels conventional wisdom on the Cyprus dispute.

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