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.

Monday, February 18, 2008

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS
Independence Is Proclaimed By Kosovo
PRISTINA, Kosovo, Feb. 17 -- A new state emerged from the long and bloody unraveling of Yugoslavia when the Serbian province of Kosovo declared independence on Sunday. Its ethnic Albanian leaders promised to embrace Kosovo's embittered Serb minority and forge a multiethnic, democratic nation.
(By Peter Finn, The Washington Post)

USDA Orders Largest Meat Recall in U.S. History
(By David Brown, The Washington Post)

Short Maternity Leaves, Long Deployments
Schedule Sends Army Moms Back to the Field Quickly
(By Ann Scott Tyson, The Washington Post)

Clinton's Ties To Texas Run Long and Deep
(By Dan Balz, The Washington Post)

Delay Of Report Is Blamed On Politics
Document Suggests Public Health Risks Near Great Lakes
(By Kari Lydersen, The Washington Post)

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POLITICS
It's All Uphill From Here
It was 15 degrees outside on a wind-whipped Pennsylvania Avenue as Hillary Clinton, smile firmly fixed in place, made an early-morning stop for a primary she didn't have a prayer of winning.
(By Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post)

Clinton's Ties To Texas Run Long and Deep
(By Dan Balz, The Washington Post)

System Worries Clinton Backers
Delegates Won May Not Reflect Popular Vote
(By Matthew Mosk, The Washington Post)

USDA Orders Largest Meat Recall in U.S. History
(By David Brown, The Washington Post)

Why Being the GOP's No. 2 Isn't So Bad
(By Shankar Vedantam, The Washington Post)

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NATION
USDA Orders Largest Meat Recall in U.S. History
The Agriculture Department has ordered the largest meat recall in its history -- 143 million pounds of beef, a California meatpacker's entire production for the past two years -- because the company did not prevent ailing animals from entering the U.S. food supply, officials said yesterday.
(By David Brown, The Washington Post)

Corals May Get Help Adapting to Warmer Waters
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(By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post)

Short Maternity Leaves, Long Deployments
Schedule Sends Army Moms Back to the Field Quickly
(By Ann Scott Tyson, The Washington Post)

Delay Of Report Is Blamed On Politics
Document Suggests Public Health Risks Near Great Lakes
(By Kari Lydersen, The Washington Post)

Why Being the GOP's No. 2 Isn't So Bad
(By Shankar Vedantam, The Washington Post)

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WORLD
Desiring a Fair Vote, Doubting It Will Be
SIALKOT, Pakistan, Feb. 17 -- Many people in this gritty rural district of wheat fields and cinder-block factories believe one of the country's two main opposition parties deserves to win Monday's crucial voting for parliament. Yet they also believe the government will do everything it can to ste...
(By Pamela Constable and Candace Rondeaux, The Washington Post)

Safety Subverted In China's Mines
Corruption Comes to the Surface After Disaster That Halted Production
(By Edward Cody, The Washington Post)

Suicide Bomber in Afghanistan Kills More Than 80 at Dogfighting Event
(By Pamela Constable, The Washington Post)

Short Maternity Leaves, Long Deployments
Schedule Sends Army Moms Back to the Field Quickly
(By Ann Scott Tyson, The Washington Post)

Pride in Obama Aside, Tanzanians Praise Bush
President Urges Expansion of Aid Program
(By Peter Baker, The Washington Post)

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METRO
Car Race's Drivers, Spectators Reticent
Investigators in Prince George's County struggled to extract information yesterday from stunned and reluctant witnesses in the clandestine illegal racing community as police identified six of the eight men killed when a car plowed into a crowd at a street race early Saturday.
(By Daniel de Vise, Rosalind S. Helderman and Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post)

Committees Diverge on Va. Budget
Votes Set Up Clash Between House, Senate
(By Tim Craig and Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post)

Amid Optimism, Black Women Left Struggling
Relatively Few Share General Enthusiasm for Fenty, D.C.'s Future, Poll Finds
(By Nikita Stewart and Jennifer Agiesta, The Washington Post)

Rhee Weighs Ideas to Fix 27 Schools
(By V. Dion Haynes, The Washington Post)

Relentless Questioning Paves a Deeper Path
(By Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post)

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BUSINESS
The AOL Exodus Effect
Barry Schuler moved to Washington from Silicon Valley to join AOL during its golden days, one of the many top technology professionals the Internet giant recruited to the region. But when the former chief executive left in 2003, he returned to California to become an investor and start a technolo...
(By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Kendra Marr, The Washington Post)

The New Way To Make Deals: Blank Checks
Firms Gather Cash, Then Look for Something to Buy
(By Thomas Heath, The Washington Post)

A Smooth Cut From Photo Op to Bill Signing
After Hosting Bush, Manufacturer Attends Stimulus Law Ceremony
(By Michael S. Rosenwald, The Washington Post)

Fannie Mae Reacts To Concerns Over Office Diversity
(By Anita Huslin, The Washington Post)

Postal Service Sees Simplicity in 31 Digits
(By Stephen Barr, The Washington Post)

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TECHNOLOGY
Postal Service Sees Simplicity in 31 Digits
The U.S. Postal Service is launching a 31-digit bar code that will permit business customers -- advertisers, catalogue and credit card companies -- to track their mail, from the drop-off at a post office to delivery at a home or office.
(By Stephen Barr, The Washington Post)

The AOL Exodus Effect
Once a Magnet, Firm's Departure May Alter Local Tech Landscape
(By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Kendra Marr, The Washington Post)

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SPORTS
Let the Good Work Roll
The NBA All-Star game benefited both the city of New Orleans and the NBA as the league helped its image and a limping city got an economic boost.
(By Mike Wise, The Washington Post)

Terps Win Hours After Frese Gives Birth
No. 4 Maryland 76, No. 12 Duke 69
(By Kathy Orton, The Washington Post)

Johnson Delights the Nats By Taking a Healthy Stance
(By Dave Sheinin, The Washington Post)

Newman Pushed to Victory Lane
Busch's Bump 'From Heaven' Gives Penske Driver Thrilling Last-Lap Daytona 500 Triumph
(By Liz Clarke, The Washington Post)

Diamondbacks' Johnson Looks Good on Hill
(The Washington Post)

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STYLE
Plucky Charms
Not too far into writing "People of the Book," Geraldine Brooks knew she was in trouble.
(By Bob Thompson, The Washington Post)

NAMES & FACES
(The Washington Post)

'Raymonda,' A Russian Beauty By Way of Japan
(By Sarah Kaufman, The Washington Post)

It's All Uphill From Here
Coverage Adds to Clinton's Steep Climb
(By Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post)

And Now the News: Schieffer Wins a Wammie
(By Teresa Wiltz, The Washington Post)

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Presidents' Day
"CHANGE." The word rings and resounds this year, the idea uplifting as always -- until people start trying to define it. There's nothing new about this. The calls for meaningful change in America were heard even before there was an America. In June 1775, future president John Adams received an an...
(The Washington Post)

Independent Kosovo
The birth of Europe's newest state was long overdue.
(The Washington Post)

William and Mary
What not to learn from a college president's departure
(The Washington Post)

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