View From a Baltic Balcony
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Why it's dangerous to talk of America as a hyperpower.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Updated: 11:16 a.m. ET Aug. 17, 2005
Aug. 15, 2005 - STOCKHOLM, Sweden-The large white yacht with no
markings is roughly the size of Cleveland, and it is moored at a dock
in the middle of this gorgeous city of islands and water, right across
a harbor from my hotel. It's trimmed in green neon, which at night
gives the vessel an intriguing, vaguely ominous look. Everybody in town
knows who the owner is: Larry Ellison, the American who gave the world
Oracle, the data-base-management software. He obviously travels in
grand style.
Howard Fineman
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