usatoday.com - 11/12/2008
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Barack Obama made history as America's first African-American president. He now has a chance to shatter another historic White House convention as the first chief executive in three decades to send his children to a local public school. Such a decision would have more than mere symbolic ...
huffingtonpost.com - 11/14/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
The owners of the pizzeria that makes Barack
Obama's favorite pies are heading to Washington, NBC 5's...
Anthony Ponce reports . Italian Fiesta Pizza in Hyde Park is taking its spicy-sauced, thin crust pizza to D.C. for an event previewing the food ...
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Obama's Favorite Pizza Coming To Washington
abclocal.go.com - 11/17/2008
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abclocal.go.com —
CHICAGO -- Negative stereotypes in the media about
African-American women stem back as far as the image...
of "mammy" in old movies and still sting today when female college athletes are described with hurtful names. Now, many believe the presence of ...
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How Michelle Obama's rise to prominence may help break ...
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/19/2008
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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com —
My opinion of Angler has become more favorable
during the course of this discussion as I see...
some of the paths Bart didn't take. Before I fall into the tank completely, I should post some of my promised criticism of the book. One of my main ...
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Potemkin Washington
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Silly DC School Board Members Beg Obama to Send His Kids to Public School
JammieWearingFool —
Wow, how naive are these people ? Do they really believe a pair of elitist liberals are actually going to send their kids to the schools the little people are forced to use? Buried in the bad publicity about Washington's dysfunctional system is the fact that our top public school students can go head-to-head with America's best. They win National History Day competitions and get snapped up by Ivy League colleges, often with millions in scholarships. Every official from our mayor on down is focused on promoting further excellence and achievement. Like any Washington couple, ...
A Reality Check
The American Spectator —
... Bobb and Lord have ludicrously urged Obama to send his daughters
into the "trenches" of D.C.'s public school system. They
write that "no private option offers President-elect Obama a
personal reality check on the No Child Left Behind mandates he
campaigned to reform. Public school parents see test-prep
squeezing out art. They push for quality. As the law's
reauthorization looms, what better crash course on its impact
than to have kids in the trenches? Now that would be a change any
family can believe in." ...
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Fresh from his Hawaiian vacation, President-elect Barack Obama will leave behind his home and transition office in Chicago next week and make the final move to Washington, D.C.
But he won't be staying put for long.
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Albright, Leach to represent Obama at summit —
CNN Political Ticker 11/12/2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) – President-elect Barack Obama's transition team announced Wednesday that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach will represent the incoming administration at the G-20 economic summit ...
U.S. general urges Obama not to cave to Russia —
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