The winners of this system of universal suffrage and presidency contest are not the excellent. The winner are just lucky ones who knows how to show their merits and hide their drawbacks, who can solve dilemmas and agitate the public; they are not necessarily talented but they appear at the right place on the right time.
If anything, Hillary Clinton is fiercer in her support for Israel and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, than Mr. Harper and his foreign minister, John Baird.
Thanks to globalization and the Internet, the “cambio que necesitamos”—the change we need—and the “sÃ, se puede”—yes, we can—have become contagious throughout the planet in a way that borders on idolatry.
Snubbed for the past three years by his own prime minister, [author Yann] Martel is now receiving consolation from the most powerful man in the West without ever having asked for it.