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The angry - even vicious - letters in the online and paper versions of The R&B, the awful editorial cartoon branding Dr. Carroll a racist and the shredding of her professional reputation was appalling.

I left the articles without having any idea of what Dr. Carrol had done to lead to and result in a finding of harassment. I also have no idea what the connection is between her salary inequity claim and the finding of harassment. That should not be.

We’re beginning to get a sense of how Barack Obama’s political success could change global perceptions of the United States, redefining the American “brand” to be less about Guantánamo and more about equality. This change in perceptions would help rebuild American political capital in the way that the Marshall Plan did in the 1950s or that John Kennedy’s presidency did in the early 1960s.

In his endorsement, Mr. Powell added that an Obama election “will also not only electrify our country, I think it’ll electrify the world.”

Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes, which conducted the BBC poll, said that at a recent international conference he attended in Malaysia, many Muslims voiced astonishment at Mr. Obama’s rise because it was so much at odds with their assumptions about the United States