If it did, the US should have much healthier politics than Europe, says Janan Ganesh for the Financial Times. LONDON: Except for the most tiresome pedants, who celebrated the millennium on Jan 1, 2001, rather than 2000, we are nearing the quarter-point of our century. What are the surprises so far? What would people have found hard to believe 25 years ago? That Russia, which struggled to pay its pensioners back then, would become a revanchist war machine . That Islamist terrorism would announce

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