As a local development consultant who has worked in Europe for the past 25 years, I was fascinated by your lead article headlined “America, the rootless” (Main news, Dec. 25) Urban sprawl is ...

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Does Barack Obama understand the people he leads? Do his aides? These may seem cheeky questions to ask of a team that just won the presidency. But there is something in their cool, insouciant, blase ...