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Europe Is Giddy for US: Can It Last?

French expect America to 'find its path' again

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 20, 2009 7:07 PM CST

(Newser) – In France, the magic of Barack Obama’s inauguration is “a bit like the liberation after World War II,” says one French analyst. This particular sentiment “may have hit the hyperbolic stratosphere,” writes Elizabeth Bryant in the Washington Times, but it... Read full story »

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