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.
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Obama plays basketball, a sport he participated in as a member of his high school's varsity team.
Speaking to an elderly Jewish audience during his 2004 campaign for U.S. Senate, Obama linked the linguistic roots of his East African first name Barack to the Hebrew word baruch, meaning "blessed.
His knowledge about his absent Luo father came mainly through family stories and photographs.
Through the first two quarters of fundraising, Obama's campaign has received donations from a grand total of about 258,000 contributors, the most of any 2008 candidate.
"Obama's rapid rise from Illinois state legislator to U.S.
The book's last chapters describe his first visit to Kenya, a journey to connect with his Luo family and heritage.
Obama plays basketball, a sport he participated in as a member of his high school's varsity team.
Obama began podcasting from his U.S. Senate web site in late 2005.
Obama participated in 38 fundraising events in 2005, helping to pull in US$6.
Also during the first month of the 110th Congress, Obama introduced the "Iraq War De-Escalation Act," a bill that caps troop levels in Iraq at January 10, 2007 levels, begins phased redeployment on May 1, 2007, and removes all combat brigades from Iraq by March 31, 2008.
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, June 30, 2008
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Pentagon Fights EPA On Pollution Cleanup The Defense Department, the nation's biggest polluter, is resisting orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade and two other military bases where the EPA says dumped chemicals pose "imminent and substantial" dangers to public health and the environment. (By Lyndsey Layton, The Washington Post)
Man Accused Of Killing Pr. George's Officer Dies Suspect Found in Jail Cell Without Pulse; Officials Say Body Indicated No Trauma (By Aaron C. Davis, James Hohmann and Jerry Markon, The Washington Post)
POLITICS In Flag City USA, False Obama Rumors Are Flying FINDLAY, Ohio -- On his corner of College Street, Jim Peterman stares at the four American flags planted in his front lawn and rubs his forehead. Peterman, 74, is a retired worker at Cooper Tire, a father of two, an Air Force veteran and a self-described patriot. He took one trip to Washington in... (By Eli Saslow, The Washington Post)
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NATION Pentagon Fights EPA On Pollution Cleanup The Defense Department, the nation's biggest polluter, is resisting orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade and two other military bases where the EPA says dumped chemicals pose "imminent and substantial" dangers to public health and the environment. (By Lyndsey Layton, The Washington Post)
WORLD Pioneering Chinese City Offers a Peek at Political Ferment SHENZHEN, China -- When China decided to liberalize its economy back in the late 1970s, Shenzhen was chosen as the vanguard, the first "special economic zone" allowed to do business free of Communist-era restrictions. (By Edward Cody, The Washington Post)
METRO Man Accused Of Killing Pr. George's Officer Dies A 19-year-old man accused of running down a Prince George's County police officer died yesterday in custody, less than 36 hours after he was charged in connection with the slaying. (By Aaron C. Davis, James Hohmann and Jerry Markon, The Washington Post)
BUSINESS Google Enters ComScore's Turf Suddenly having Google as a competitor could quickly spell death for a smaller firm. When the search giant last week unveiled a tool that measures audiences for various Web sites, Reston-based ComScore saw its stock drop by 23 percent in one day. (By Kim Hart, The Washington Post)
A Bearish Week for Area Firms Financial Sector Takes a Beating (By Thomas Heath and Christopher Twarowski, The Washington Post)
Gearing Up for the Fans As an African Soccer Tournament at RFK Stadium Promises To Lure Thousands to Town, Ethiopian Businesses Get Ready (By Alejandro Lazo and Christopher Twarowski, The Washington Post)
TECHNOLOGY Washington's Two-Party System Tech Post, which looks at people and ideas driving the local technology industry, runs Friday on the WashBiz Blog, at washingtonpost.com/washbizblog. (By Zachary A. Goldfarb, The Washington Post)
Google Enters ComScore's Turf Reston Web Measurement Firm Says It Isn't Threatened, Citing Its Data Quality (By Kim Hart, The Washington Post)
Surfing Roads Less Traveled Ashburn Firm Makes WiMax a Reality in Small-Town America (By Zachary A. Goldfarb, The Washington Post)
SPORTS At the U.S. Trials, Already Up to Speed Michael Phelps sets a world record in his first event of the Olympic trials, the 400-meter IM, and Katie Hoff does the same to get the finals off to a quick start. (By Barry Svrluga, The Washington Post)
STYLE Hearts, Not Minds What if the 2008 presidential election were decided by voters acting not on their political judgments or analyses of the candidates, but on their emotions? In the view of some experts, this is a trick question -- of course the election will be decided emotionally. Elections always are. (By Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post)
LIVE DISCUSSIONS Talk About Travel Post travel editors and writers field questions and comments. On the itinerary this week: playing miniature golf in Myrtle Beach, staying fit while on the road and seeing Manhattan by rickshaw. (The Flight Crew, washingtonpost.com)
Guns: The Next Step IN APPEALING to the Supreme Court to save the D.C. handgun ban, local officials rightly thought of what was best for the people of Washington, D.C. A lower court had already invalidated the ban, and there was a chance -- albeit limited -- of prevailing. Instead, the high court agreed that the ban... (The Washington Post)
A Persistent Scourge HIV-AIDS continues to ensnare young gay men. (The Washington Post)
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In January 2006, Obama joined a Congressional delegation for meetings with U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq.
" But in an October 2006 article titled "Obama: Black Like Me," British columnist Gary Younge describes Obama as "a black man who does not scare white people.
Of his early childhood, Obama writes: "That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind.
Obama plays basketball, a sport he participated in as a member of his high school's varsity team.
" Expressing a similar view, New York Daily News columnist Stanley Crouch wrote: "When black Americans refer to Obama as 'one of us,' I do not know what they are talking about.
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States.
" The audio book edition earned Obama the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.
In September 2006, Obama supported a related bill, the Secure Fence Act, authorizing construction of fencing and other security improvements along the United States–Mexico border.
We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
Obama, who defines himself in The Audacity of Hope as "a Democrat, after all," has been criticized for his political actions by self-described progressive commentator David Sirota, and complimented for his "Can't we all just get along?" manner by conservative columnist George Will.
In the memoir, Obama describes his experiences growing up in his mother's American middle class family.
The protection was not in response to any specific threat, but the campaign had received "hate mail, calls and other 'threatening materials'" in the past, and officials felt that the large crowds and increased campaign activity warranted the order.
The donations came from 104,000 individual donors, with US$6.9 million raised through the Internet from 50,000 of the donors.
In the same week, Zogby International reported that Obama leads all prospective Republican opponents in polling for the 2008 general election.
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported the war in Iraq.
I'm opposed to dumb wars.
The bill did not progress beyond committee and was never voted on by the Senate.
In July 2005, Samantha Power, Pulitzer-winning author on human rights and genocide, joined Obama's team.
"He was an early opponent of Bush administration policies on Iraq.
Addressing the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in November 2006, Obama called for a phased withdrawal of troops and an opening of diplomatic dialogue with Iraq's neighbors, Syria and Iran.
" He joined with Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) in strengthening restrictions on travel in corporate jets to S.1, the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007, which passed the Senate with a 96-2 majority. Obama joined Charles Schumer (D-NY) in sponsoring S. 453, a bill to criminalize deceptive practices in federal elections, including fraudulent flyers and automated phone calls, as witnessed in the 2006 midterm elections.
" Time magazine's Joe Klein wrote that the book "may be the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.
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.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Crisis Eclipses Mugabe's Comeback HARARE, Zimbabwe, July 28 -- President Robert Mugabe has emerged from the most tumultuous election in Zimbabwe's history with his grip on power restored but his nation's daunting problems -- including hyperinflation, international isolation and an exodus of skilled workers -- dramatically worsened. (The Washington Post)
POLITICS A New Political Geography When Sen. Barack Obama chose the Nissan Pavilion in the outer suburbs of Northern Virginia to kick off his general-election campaign, one of the 10,000 supporters there was David Bruzas, who recently moved to the fastest-growing part of a state that is moving rapidly away from its Republican past. (By Alec MacGillis, The Washington Post)
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NATION A Win by McCain Could Push a Split Court to Right For much of its term, the Supreme Court muted last year's noisy dissents, warmed to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s vision of narrow, incremental decisions and continued a slow but hardly steady move to the right. (By Robert Barnes, The Washington Post)
WORLD Crisis Eclipses Mugabe's Comeback HARARE, Zimbabwe, July 28 -- President Robert Mugabe has emerged from the most tumultuous election in Zimbabwe's history with his grip on power restored but his nation's daunting problems -- including hyperinflation, international isolation and an exodus of skilled workers -- dramatically worsened. (The Washington Post)
METRO Va. Toll Road Scofflaws, Beware: State Says Pay Up For years, dodging payments on the Dulles Toll Road was virtually risk-free. Now, it's more like an extreme sport. (By Michael Laris, The Washington Post)
BUSINESS As Tobacco Loses Currency, a New Cash Crop Blooms Jamie Raley's family has been farming in St. Mary's County since Abraham Lincoln was president, mostly growing tobacco. But with the drop in U.S. cigarette smoking over the past decade, tobacco no longer pays. So the Raleys cast about for something else that would keep them on the farm. (By Thomas Heath, The Washington Post)
TECHNOLOGY Help File Q Why aren't there any rewriteable double-layer DVDs? I can find dual-layer discs only in write-once formats that I can't reuse. (By Rob Pegoraro, The Washington Post)
SPORTS Milledge Hurt in Nats' Loss To Orioles Errors prove costly for the Nationals as just six of Baltimore's nine runs are earned and the Orioles wash out Washington, 9-1, on Saturday. (By Chico Harlan, The Washington Post)
STYLE Bridge "Why was Cy banging his head against the wall today?" a player asked me at the club. "Is that his latest method of trying to lose weight?" (By Frank Stewart, The Washington Post)
Top of The Heap One couple had what it took to be ambassadors of the United States of Disarray. But this is where reality TV fosters a national pastime: watching others conquer the clutter. (By Hank Stuever, The Washington Post)
A Conductor Comes to A Coda NSO's Leonard Slatkin Leaves on a Note of Regret (By Anne Midgette, The Washington Post)
What the GIs Deserve POLITICAL PROMISES are easy to make, harder to keep. So it is a testament to the tenacity of Sen. James Webb (D-Va.) and the justice of his cause that Congress has enacted a new GI Bill for war veterans. The freshman senator's ability to work across party lines means that the men and women who risk... (The Washington Post)
Bias in High Places The Justice Department had a litmus test. (The Washington Post)
Millionaires Win A Supreme Court ruling puts public financing of elections at risk. (The Washington Post)
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"During his first year as a U.S. senator, in a move more typically taken after several years of holding high political office, Obama established a leadership political action committee, Hopefund, for channeling financial support to Democratic candidates.
Obama has divested US$180,000 in personal holdings of Sudan-related stock, and he has urged divestment from companies doing business in Iran.
On the role of government in economic affairs, Obama has written: "we should be asking ourselves what mix of policies will lead to a dynamic free market and widespread economic security, entrepreneurial innovation and upward mobility Z...Z we should be guided by what works.
Through the first two quarters of fundraising, Obama's campaign has received donations from a grand total of about 258,000 contributors, the most of any 2008 candidate.
I've got an ironclad demand from my wife that in the stresses of the campaign I don't succumb.
Obama, who defines himself in The Audacity of Hope as "a Democrat, after all," has been criticized for his political actions by self-described progressive commentator David Sirota, and complimented for his "Can't we all just get along?" manner by conservative columnist George Will.
" He describes his Kenyan father as "raised a Muslim," but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his Indonesian step-father as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful.
They were married in 1992 and have two daughters, Malia, born in 1999, and Natasha ("Sasha"), born in 2001.
" Speaking in November 2006 to members of Wake Up Wal-Mart, a union-backed campaign group, Obama said: "You gotta pay your workers enough that they can actually not only shop at Wal-Mart, but ultimately send their kids to college and save for retirement.
Speaking to an elderly Jewish audience during his 2004 campaign for U.S. Senate, Obama linked the linguistic roots of his East African first name Barack to the Hebrew word baruch, meaning "blessed.
The first such poll, taken in November 2006, ranked Obama in second place with 17% support among Democrats after Sen.
Obama sponsored 152 bills and resolutions brought before the 109th Congress in 2005 and 2006, and cosponsored another 427.
He flew his wife and two daughters from Chicago to join him in a visit to his father's birthplace, a village near Kisumu in rural western Kenya.
" Replying to an Associated Press survey of 2008 presidential candidates' personal tastes, he specified "architect" as his alternate career choice and "chili" as his favorite meal to cook.
In August 2004, with less than three months to go before election day, Alan Keyes accepted the Illinois Republican Party's nomination to replace Ryan.
The trip focused on strategies to control the world's supply of conventional weapons, biological weapons, and weapons of mass destruction, as a strategic first defense against the threat of future terrorist attacks.
Obama, who defines himself in The Audacity of Hope as "a Democrat, after all," has been criticized for his political actions by self-described progressive commentator David Sirota, and complimented for his "Can't we all just get along?" manner by conservative columnist George Will.
" He completed his J.D. degree magna cum laude in 1991.
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.
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The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal world-wide news box lead with, while the Los Angeles Times fronts, Zimbabwe's one-man presidential election. Gangs of thugs loyal to President Robert Mugabe, the only candidate, drove frightened voters to the polls, collecting their personal information and threatening violence if they resisted. The New York Times poetically describes it as a "woeful event in a woebegone nation".
The LAT leads with a report on Barack Obama's move to the center on many issues, while the WP fronts his appearance with Hillary Clinton in Unity, New Hampshire. The NYT leads with a potential deal between the U.S. and Europe that would allow American law enforcement and security agencies to access information about European citizens. Credit card transactions, travel histories and internet browsing habits might be shared, but there are still about half a dozen outstanding issues to be dealt with.
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He married in 1992 and has two daughters.
Obama spoke out in June 2006 against making recent, temporary estate tax cuts permanent, calling the cuts a "Paris Hilton" tax break for "billionaire heirs and heiresses.
He was also criticized by a rival pro-choice candidate in the Democratic primary and by his Republican pro-life opponent in the general election for having voted either "present" or "no" on anti-abortion legislation.
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.
He hired former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle's ex-chief of staff for the same position, and Karen Kornbluh, an economist who was deputy chief of staff to former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, as his policy adviser.
In September 2006, he was the featured speaker at Iowa Senator Tom Harkin's annual steak fry, an event traditionally attended by presidential hopefuls in the lead-up to the Iowa caucus.
The protection was not in response to any specific threat, but the campaign had received "hate mail, calls and other 'threatening materials'" in the past, and officials felt that the large crowds and increased campaign activity warranted the order.
Obama plays basketball, a sport he participated in as a member of his high school's varsity team.
" In December 2006, Obama joined Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) at the "Global Summit on AIDS and the Church" organized by church leaders Kay and Rick Warren.
" The book describes his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage.
Through three televised debates, Obama and Keyes expressed opposing views on stem cell research, abortion, gun control, school vouchers, and tax cuts.
His knowledge about his absent Luo father came mainly through family stories and photographs.
"I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher.
"Obama's rapid rise from Illinois state legislator to U.S.
Since announcing his candidacy in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War and implementing universal health care as campaign themes.
The family moved to Jakarta in 1967, where Obama attended local schools from ages 6 to 10.
" Speaking before the National Press Club in April 2005, Obama defended the New Deal social welfare policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, associating Republican proposals to establish private accounts for Social Security with Social Darwinism.
He married in 1992 and has two daughters.
Together with Warren and Brownback, Obama took an HIV test, as he had done in Kenya less than four months earlier.
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.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Political Maneuvers Delay Bill After Bill in Senate The Senate went home yesterday for the Fourth of July holiday to face voters, having failed repeatedly to address critical economic issues from skyrocketing gas prices to climate change to the nation's housing crisis. (By Lori Montgomery and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, The Washington Post)
POLITICS Political Maneuvers Delay Bill After Bill in Senate The Senate went home yesterday for the Fourth of July holiday to face voters, having failed repeatedly to address critical economic issues from skyrocketing gas prices to climate change to the nation's housing crisis. (By Lori Montgomery and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, The Washington Post)
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NATION U.S. Settles With Scientist Named in Anthrax Cases The Justice Department agreed yesterday to pay biological-weapons expert Steven J. Hatfill a settlement valued at $5.85 million to drop a lawsuit he filed after then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft named him a "person of interest" in the investigation of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. (By Carrie Johnson, The Washington Post)
WORLD Fuel Prices Boost Cause of S. Asia's Maligned Rickshaw NEW DELHI -- The bicycle rickshaws that weave through New Delhi's narrow lanes have long been scorned by authorities here for congesting the city's already fierce traffic. The creaking carriages crawl alongside luxury sedans, book hawkers, horse-drawn carts, hulking buses and cows. (By Emily Wax, The Washington Post)
METRO Serious Problems Found in Recruits' Past One was arrested as a teenager for armed robbery. Another was allegedly involved in an arson. A third admitted having sold marijuana. (By Mary Beth Sheridan, The Washington Post)
BUSINESS Latest Losses Put Stocks Close to Bear Territory A week of spiraling oil prices, pessimistic corporate news and renewed fears over the direction of the national economy ended yesterday with U.S. stocks again slipping after the dramatic fall of a day earlier. (By Alejandro Lazo, The Washington Post)
TECHNOLOGY Radiation Monitors To Cost More Than DHS Estimated in '06 The cost to put a new kind of radiation monitor in place at borders and ports across the country would be far more than the Department of Homeland Security initially told Congress, according to budget documents and interviews with officials. (By Robert O'Harrow Jr., The Washington Post)
SPORTS This Year, There's No Clear Favorite In Women's 100 Rarely has women's track and field been cloaked in such a competitive haze in the U.S., particularly with the Olympics a mere six weeks away. (By Amy Shipley, The Washington Post)
STYLE An Attack That Came Out of the Ether PRINCETON, N.J. The e-mail landed in Danielle Allen's queue one winter morning as she was studying in her office at the Institute for Advanced Study, the renowned haven for some of the nation's most brilliant minds. The missive began: "THIS DEFINITELY WARRANTS LOOKING INTO." Laid out before Allen... (By Matthew Mosk, The Washington Post)
A Cooling Tower Crumbles THE 60-FOOT-HIGH cooling tower at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear reactor came tumbling down in a cloud of dust yesterday, producing a television picture that U.S. officials have been seeking for more than two years. The dramatic image was meant to convey the tangible results of a protracted and t... (The Washington Post)
Punishing an Enormity Child rape is an unforgivable offense, but not a capital crime. (The Washington Post)
Something Up the Sleeve? The D.C. Council's curious stalling over a lottery proposal (The Washington Post)
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Asked to name a "hidden talent," Obama answered: "I'm a pretty good poker player.
Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. (born in Nyanza Province, Kenya) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas).
In Dreams from My Father, he ties his maternal family history to possible Native American ancestors and distant relatives of Jefferson Davis, president of the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War.
His mother married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian foreign student, with whom she had one daughter, Maya.
" He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as detached from religion, yet "in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known.
" He describes his Kenyan father as "raised a Muslim," but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his Indonesian step-father as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful.
Agreeing with Obama's own assessment that "people project their hopes on him," Noonan attributed some of Obama's popularity to "a certain unknowability."
The U.S. Senate Historical Office lists him as the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate.
In it he recalls his childhood in Honolulu and Jakarta, college years in Los Angeles and New York City, and his employment as a community organizer in Chicago in the 1980s.
Obama, who defines himself in The Audacity of Hope as "a Democrat, after all," has been criticized for his political actions by self-described progressive commentator David Sirota, and complimented for his "Can't we all just get along?" manner by conservative columnist George Will.
"A theme of Obama's keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and the title of his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, was inspired by his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
He married in 1992 and has two daughters.
We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we got some gay friends in the Red States.
Obama received over 52% of the vote in the March 2004 primary, emerging 29% ahead of his nearest Democratic rival.
Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party.
Since announcing his candidacy in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War and implementing universal health care as campaign themes.
The New York Times described Obama as "the prize catch of the midterm campaign" because of his campaigning for fellow Democratic Party members running for election in the 2006 midterm elections.
" He describes his Kenyan father as "raised a Muslim," but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his Indonesian step-father as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful.
" Reviewer Michael Tomasky writes that it does not contain "boldly innovative policy prescriptions that will lead the Democrats out of their wilderness," but does show Obama's potential to "construct a new politics that is progressive but grounded in civic traditions that speak to a wider range of Americans.
Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 from the state's 13th District in the south-side Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park.
Obama said, "The time has come for universal health care in America Z...Z I am absolutely determined that by the end of the first term of the next president, we should have universal health care in this country.
Obama plays basketball, a sport he participated in as a member of his high school's varsity team.
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