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Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen is the author of the book, Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture. The book has been published in twelve languages and was short-listed for the 2008 Higham’s Business Technology Book of the Year award. He writes a column about new media for The Independent.
Question: What do Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, most American liberal journalists and international human rights advocates have in common?
Answer: They are all pinning their hopes and hearts on Barack Obama...
* Medvedev wants Obama to "patch up" relations between America and Russia.
* Geoffrey Robertson, author of Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice, believes that Obama to "right the wrongs" of all previous American administrations.
* Michael Hirsh pontificating about the failure of unregulated capitalism in this week's Newsweek, thinks Obama "job" is not only to to rescue the American economy, but also to save capitalism itself by acting "as a kind of cosmic broker between the end of one historical era and the beginning of another."
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Answer: They are all pinning their hopes and hearts on Barack Obama...
* Medvedev wants Obama to "patch up" relations between America and Russia.
* Geoffrey Robertson, author of Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice, believes that Obama to "right the wrongs" of all previous American administrations.
* Michael Hirsh pontificating about the failure of unregulated capitalism in this week's Newsweek, thinks Obama "job" is not only to to rescue the American economy, but also to save capitalism itself by acting "as a kind of cosmic broker between the end of one historical era and the beginning of another."
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