I liked one of the cover lines above the strap in today’s Financial Times: “No rest for Americans, though the president holidays like a Frenchman.” Apparently Bush has set a presidential record by spending 336 days at his Crawford ranch since he took office.

According to the article (which I couldn’t find on the FT website), “an American worker typically gets about 13 days of paid leave a year” — after five years of work for a company. Offered a choice between more money and more spare time, most Americans will take the money. Europeans will take the time.