(Photo from World Cultural Pictorial)Five Silver Linings -- Slate
In spite of the obvious challenges, Obama will enter the White House with some paths to success staked out.
It's a truism that Barack Obama faces the most intractable set of challenges that any president has faced in at least 50 years. But on a few issues in foreign and military policy, he's caught a break. Whether by luck, the effect of his election, or President George W. Bush's stepped-up drive to win last-minute kudos, Obama will enter the White House with some paths to success already marked, if not quite paved.
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