He could use part of his transition to tour the world, certainly listening to friends and rivals alike but also gently making clear the limits of his presidency.
Still, he may take some comfort from the fact that the University of Pathein has finally reopened and is thronged with students, who, on the Saturday evening I was there, crowded the teashops along the road leading to the campus gates, chatting, reading, flirting and listening to noisy music as students do the world over.
But most families do not have the rest of the world listening to every word.
Yet they all inhabit an extreme emotional world, and listening to the whole cycle is a disturbing and enriching experience.
The situation means that the Arab world will be listening even more closely to Obama's June 4 address in Cairo to hear whether the U.S. president will champion democracy -- even if it means an inevitable standoff between Israel, a historically staunch ally, and Lebanon, as it struggles to find an identity both within itself and in the outside world.
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After we lost the World Club Challenge the other year, he spent half an hour listening to my dad telling him how he was putting a ladder up to the loft.
The legislation being debated by the public on treason, secession and subversion is similar to that which is in place in most countries of the world--including the U.S. Hong Kong is listening to its people in an attempt to get the wording exactly right--this will be legislation drafted and enacted by Hong Kong people.
Reading and listening to the comment, it is easy to believe that the financial world is held together with tissue paper.
This video shows even more: Commanding the headset is as easy as uttering the words "OK, Glass, " a clever use of real-world speech to engage the device's listening mode.
It's perhaps the only festival in the world where you can watch camel racing while listening to amped-up desert blues, where hawkers sell headscarves rather than burgers and where you can camp in a Tuareg tent among miles of empty sand dunes.
But today I met the Prime Minister here in London and my feeling is that - no, very fortunately, the world is not walking away from Afghanistan and not listening its attention to Afghanistan.
Being unable to engage in the simple art of listening effectively leaves you lost in your own one-dimensional world.
Whoever wins the presidential election will find himself governing in an inter-connected world where listening to our overseas partners and competitors is more critical than ever.
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Also, my dorm's high-speed Internet connection allowed me to stream music from noncommercial stations all around the world, like BBC Radio 1, to see what we would be listening to stateside in another six months.
Listening to a General Manager of a telecommunication technology company lament about his pipeline reveals the extent to which the old world is clashing with the new.
Listening to your heart, do you really think that so long as many bright people in all corners of the world were victims of a mirage in front of their test tubes and in front of their calculations?
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