This is a more-or-less permanent state of affairs, because Mr O'Konek's contract says he does not have to take language lessons for three years (he wants to devote himself to the telecoms business first).

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Obama has committed himself, his party, and his country to the political philosophy of structural deficits, which enshrine dangerous and permanent expenditures, like those on our ever-smarter, ever-more-ubiquitous national security state.

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