Giles Slade: Beer Summit
Obama's trip to Canada seems to be paying off. A quick learner, all the American President needed was a day in true north to come to some very sophisticated conclusions. To negotiate the complex moment in race relations initiated by the arrest of his friend Professor Henry Louis Gates of Harvard, Obama has borrowed a northern strategy and resorted to the century-old venue for race negotiations between French and English by asking the aggrieved parties over for beer and a hockey game. A
