A presidency born in hope of change is stuck. A year since Obama’s election, an anniversary assessment from Godfrey Hodgson. (This article was first published on 30 October 2009)
A Greek myth preserved in the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses is a tale for the times.
Godfrey Hodgson was director of the Reuters' Foundation Programme at Oxford
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