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Sadiq Khan as the 'Anti-Trump'
Roger Cohen, author and columnist with The New York Times and International Herald Tribune, looks at London's election of Sadiq Khan as its new mayor as a triumph of openness and tolerance, as opposed to U.S. Republicans' choice of Donald Trump as their presidential nominee.