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Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. (born in Nyanza Province, Kenya) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas). Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party.

Obama grew up in culturally diverse surroundings. He spent most of his childhood in the majority-minority U.S. state of Hawaii and lived for four years in Indonesia. Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention while still an Illinois state legislator. Since announcing his candidacy in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War and implementing universal health care as campaign themes.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Obama co-sponsored the enactment of conventional weapons control and transparency legislation, and made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Obama's parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. His father went to Harvard University to pursue Ph.D. studies, then returned to Kenya, where he died in an auto accident when the younger Obama was twenty-one years old.

Friday, November 23, 2007

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers. (By Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post) So What's So Bad About Corn? As Iowa Enjoys a Bumper Crop, Farmers Hear It From Environmentalists, Ethanol Skeptics and Other Critics (By Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post) From Hopeful To Helpless At a Protest In Lebanon (By Anthony Shadid, The Washington Post) A Gap in Knowledge About Kids, Medication (By Rob Stein, The Washington Post) Church Tower Lists Toward Tipping Point, If Not a Title German Town's Landmark Outleans Pisa's, but Record Goes to Yet Another Rival (By Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post) More Today's Highlights POLITICS A Gap in Knowledge About Kids, Medication A decade after the government began trying to ensure that prescription drugs used to treat children work and are safe, doctors still have scant information to guide them when they administer many medications to kids. (By Rob Stein, The Washington Post) So What's So Bad About Corn? As Iowa Enjoys a Bumper Crop, Farmers Hear It From Environmentalists, Ethanol Skeptics and Other Critics (By Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post) Clinton Favors Future Human Spaceflight Democratic Candidate Launches a Position as Opponents Orbit From a Safe Distance (By Marc Kaufman, The Washington Post) Troops Receive a Presidential Thank-You In Telephone Calls, Bush Tells Service Members 'How Proud He Is of Them' (The Washington Post) Muted Ad Messages in Vogue Candidates Use Subtlety to Criticize Foes, Blunt Counterattacks (By Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post) More Politics
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NATION Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers. (By Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post) A Gap in Knowledge About Kids, Medication (By Rob Stein, The Washington Post) So What's So Bad About Corn? As Iowa Enjoys a Bumper Crop, Farmers Hear It From Environmentalists, Ethanol Skeptics and Other Critics (By Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post) Muted Ad Messages in Vogue Candidates Use Subtlety to Criticize Foes, Blunt Counterattacks (By Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post) Lethal Injection to Get Supreme Test Doubts of Humaneness Bring Case to High Court (By Darryl Fears, The Washington Post) More Nation WORLD Returnees Find a Capital Transformed BAGHDAD, Nov. 22 -- Iraqis are returning to their homeland by the hundreds each day, by bus, car and plane, encouraged by weeks of decreased violence and increased security, or compelled by visa and residency restrictions in neighboring countries and the depletion of their savings. (By Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post) From Hopeful To Helpless At a Protest In Lebanon (By Anthony Shadid, The Washington Post) Church Tower Lists Toward Tipping Point, If Not a Title German Town's Landmark Outleans Pisa's, but Record Goes to Yet Another Rival (By Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post) Court Clears Way For Musharraf to Remain in Office Final Legal Challenge Thrown Out (By Pamela Constable, The Washington Post) India's Cheeky 'Chick Lit' Finds an Audience Books Reveal Modern Women's Irreverent, Contrary Views on Ancient Cultural Mores (By Rama Lakshmi, The Washington Post) More World METRO Wide-Open, Um, Plastic Spaces in Md. Is it still "open space" if the grass on the ground is plastic? (By David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post) As Year's End Nears, Disappointment Va. Tribes Had Hoped Jamestown Events Would Help Them Gain Sovereign Indian Nation Status (By Brigid Schulte, The Washington Post) Woman, 3 Kids Found Slain Man Suspected Of Murder-Suicide At Montgomery Park (By Ernesto Londo¿o, The Washington Post) Casey Foundation Fights Md. Over Land Seized for Highway Group That Owned Site Says Md. Had No Right to Take It (By Katherine Shaver, The Washington Post) Let the Buyer Be Bold Prospective Owners Survey Run-Down Chesapeake Lighthouse (By Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post) More Metro BUSINESS High Tech's Hazy Horizon Until a few weeks ago, this looked like a banner year for technology stocks. In the fall, the initial public offering of software-maker VMware, rose 80 percent within the first few hours of trading. In October, Microsoft bought a 1.6 percent stake in social-networking site Facebook for $240 million. (By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Tomoeh Murakami Tse, The Washington Post) Bonus Rule May Help Keep Employees on Base (By Stephen Barr, The Washington Post) Stores Lure Shoppers Before Black Friday (By SAMANTHA BOMKAMP, AP) Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request Secret Warrants Granted Without Probable Cause (By Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post) A Gap in Knowledge About Kids, Medication (By Rob Stein, The Washington Post) More Business TECHNOLOGY Google Lets Users Fine-Tune Its Maps Tired of getting bad directions? Google Maps, Google's popular mapping and driving directions tool, is now letting users correct its maps, Wikipedia-style. (By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post) Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request Secret Warrants Granted Without Probable Cause (By Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post) High Tech's Hazy Horizon Despite a Downturn, Online Revenue Gives Companies a Cushion (By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Tomoeh Murakami Tse, The Washington Post) IPOs Provide Firms With Ample Funds Cash-Rich Deals Abound As Credit Markets Tighten (By David Cho, The Washington Post) More Technology SPORTS Hanlon Out as Caps' Coach The Capitals fire Coach Glen Hanlon Thursday, hours after being routed by the Thrashers and 21 games into a season falling well short of expectations. (By Tarik El-Bashir, The Washington Post) Redskins' Doughty Learns On The Fly Like His Son, Safety Is a Battler (By Jason Reid, The Washington Post) Favre Eats Up Lions' Defense Green Bay Quarterback Completes 20 Straight Passes in Victory: Packers 37, Lions 26 (By Larry Lage, The Washington Post) Dunbar Back on Top After Turkey Bowl Win Dunbar 20, H.D. Woodson 9 (By Alan Goldenbach, The Washington Post) Booty Leads Trojans Past Sun Devils No. 11 USC 44, No. 7 Arizona State 24 (By ANDREW BAGNATO, AP) More Sports STYLE Hollywood's Avant-Garde Storyteller Why make a movie about Bob Dylan and cast a half-dozen actors to play the living legend? (By Desson Thomson, The Washington Post) Names & Faces (The Washington Post) 'Red Balloon' and 'White Mane': Childhood Colored by Adult Cynicism (By Philip Kennicott, The Washington Post) At the Finish Line of Life, Sometimes Second Is Best (By Libby Copeland, The Washington Post) Refrigerator Stuffed Too Full? Two Designers Cook Up 'Replating' of Leftover Food To Help Feed the Homeless (By Monica Hesse, The Washington Post) More Style EDITORIALS No Rescue Here NO ONE can say how or when the subprime mortgage crisis will end. But the next act will not -- or at least should not -- include Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac riding to the housing market's rescue. That became clear Tuesday when Freddie reported an all-time record quarterly loss of $2 billion, just ... (The Washington Post) The 'Omnipresident's' Crucible France's Nicolas Sarkozy, stiffening his spine against street protests (The Washington Post) The Price of Murder The District suffers from a resurgence of killing. (The Washington Post) More Editorials

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