MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By M K Bhadrakumar, Asia Times Online, Nov. 15, 2011
United States President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev were on first name terms at the weekend's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Honolulu, even though nothing particularly is happening between their countries to justify the bonhomie. Chinese President Hu Jintao, though, remains very much "Mr President", indicative of the strains between Washington and Beijing.