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Published 2/19/2009 at L.A. Times - Politics

Indonesia, President Obama's boyhood home, is seen as key to solving global problems. Clinton says the Obama administration will sign a treaty that Bush declined. > Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Indonesians on Wednesday that she wanted to open a "robust partnership" with their fast-growing country, President Obama's boyhood home. (link)

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