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Europe is about to give Barack Obama one of the grandest of stages for statesmanship.

In this city where John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton all made famous speeches, Obama will find himself stepping into perhaps another iconic moment Thursday as his superstar charisma meets German adoration live in shadows [sic] of the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate. He then travels to Paris and London where he can expect to be greeted with similar adulation.

It’s not only Obama’s youth, eloquence and energy that have stolen hearts across the Atlantic. For Europeans, there have always been two Americas: one of cynicism, big business and bullying aggression, another of freedom, fairness and nothing-is-impossible dynamism.

If President Bush has been seen as the embodiment of that first America, Obama has raised expectations of a chance for the nation to redeem itself in the role that — at various times through history — Europe has loved, respected and relied upon.

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Exporting a Saved Workspace in InDesign

Geek time! So now that I’ve finally taken the time to set up my InDesign Workspace exactly how I want it and saving it that way, I want it to be the same at every computer I use. Part of the reason is that I’m anal, but part is that it really does save time. I suppose it’s not that hard to set it up again, but here’s a really easy way to export your settings. (OS X only. I have no idea where these things are kept on Windows.)

Do a Spotlight search for the name of your Workspace, which InDesign saves as an XML file. Copy that file to the following folder on the new computer you want to set up.

MacintoshHD > Users > Home > Library > Preferences > Adobe InDesign > Version 5.0 > Workspaces

And voila. The setting will appear in the Workspace submenu.