Barack Obama's got a foreign team of big names - with egos to match

As Barack Obama begins his presidency consumed by a struggle to repair the American economy, he would do well to remember a warning given to one of his predecessors. Shortly after his inauguration in 1993, Bill Clinton asked a senior Democratic congressmen for his view of the nation's priorities. Then, as now, the US was in a recession, albeit a milder one, and the president had pledged to focus on the economy "like a laser beam". After the congressman ... Full Story »