By Terry Lane
The Age November 26, 2006 We rank near the bottom of the pile for cultural richness, along with New Zealand, Singapore and the US. And here lies the paradox in assessing national brand power. How can the US, the richest English language culture in the world, rank at the bottom?
The answer is that all around the world people do not like America. For this reason, they volunteer an obviously ridiculous opinion on its soft values, such as culture. |
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
01 December 2006 The State Department is considering disciplinary action against the analyst at its intelligence unit who delivered a scathing assessment of the so-called "special relationship" between Britain and the US, describing it as "a sad business", and "totally one-sided, with no payback, no sense of reciprocity".
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AFP
1 Dec 06 Foreign ministers from the G8 industrialised nations, Arab, European and Muslim countries opened a conference on the shores of the Dead Sea to promote reforms in the region.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is attending the Forum of the Future meeting in Shuneh, along with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett. Jordan has invited 56 countries and organisations to attend the third annual forum, after Morocco and Bahrain, since Washington launched the Broader Middle East and North Africa initiative at a G8 summit in 2004. |
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