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Obama's praises: All the schoolkids sang
The Swampby Mark Silva "Barack Hussein Obama,'' the New Jersey schoolchildren sang with glee. "Mmmm... mmmm... mmmm.'' "Hooray Mr. President, we're really proud of you,'' they chimed. "He said that all must lend a hand, to make this country strong again.''......Tags: African-American History Month, National or Ethnic Minorities, Black History, Minority Groups, Fox Broadcasting Company
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Obama author: Didn't coach schoolkids
The Swampby Mark Silva The author of a children's book, I Am Barack Obama, says she wasn't responsible for the Obama song sung by young children in Burlington Township, N.J. Charisse Carney-Nunes says she was invited to Bernice Young Elementary School......Tags: African-American History Month, National or Ethnic Minorities, Books, Black History, Minority Groups
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Al Qaeda cornered, still plotting: Intel
The Swampby Mark Silva Osama bin Laden may still be at large, eight years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but his organization "is under more pressure'' and "more vulnerable'' than at any time since those al Qaeda-launched attacks,......Tags: Osama bin Laden, White House, Intel Corp., United States, Europe
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Facing climate impasse, U.S. antes up
The Swampby Jim Tankersley COPENHAGEN -- Attempting to revive climate negotiations that appear dangerously close to flat-lining, the Obama administration announced today that it would join allies in raising $100 billion by 2020 to help the world's poorest...Tags: Weather, Corruption, Public Relations, Ecosystems, Global Warming
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Global war, no, failed states, yes
The Swampby Mark Silva There is no "global war on terrorism.'' That's the first thing that Anthony Cordesman, a seasoned expert on national security, has to say about the failed Christmas Day bomb-attempt on a U.S.-bound airliner. Inasmuch as we've had......Tags: Europe, Cults and Sects, Globalization, North Africa, Civil Unrest
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Which Factory Builds the Best Cars?
KickingTiresMaybe some factories have happier workers, or maybe their production lines are just particularly snappy. Whatever the case, certain vehicle assembly plants produce fewer defects per 100 cars than others, and J.D. Power and Associates has just released its...Tags: Lexus, Vehicles, Mercedes-Benz, Industrial Production, Japan
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'Searching for Sugar Man': Portrait of a musician who got a second chance
The subsets of filmgoers likely to fall for the wonderful"Searching for Sugar Man"include the following: People who like music. People who watch movies. Also: People who appreciate a good mystery. People who respond to stories about second chances....
Tags: Cape Town (South Africa), Searching for Sugar Man (movie), Music Industry, South Africa, Movies
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Feeling the human cost of colonialism in 'The Convert'
![THEATER REVIEW: "The Convert" in the Goodman's Owen Theatre ★★★½ ... When Jekesai, the young African woman at the core of the intense and deeply affecting new play by Danai Gurira, first arrives at the home of Chilford, she sniffs his floor.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-03/68582826-05141115.jpg "THEATER REVIEW: "The Convert\" in the Goodman's Owen Theatre ★★★½ ... When Jekesai, the young African woman at the core of the intense and deeply affecting new play by Danai Gurira, first arrives at the home of Chilford, she sniffs his floor.")
When Jekesai, the young African woman at the core of the intense and deeply affecting new play by Danai Gurira, first arrives at the home of Chilford, the catechist who'll change her life, she sniffs his floor. In this part of southern Africa, the part...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Goodman Theatre, Arts and Culture, Zimbabwe, Kevin Mambo
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Out of Africa and into the Ivy League
Parents often flock to books dispensing advice about how to rear children who possess both the social skills to be well liked among their peers and the academic chops to make it to the Ivy League. Hyde Park residents Grayson Kachingwe and Donna...
Tags: Isaac Asimov, Education, Brown University, Culture, Sociology
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From Olympic hero to accused murderer
No memory of the London Olympics last summer remains as vivid as the image of South African inspiration Oscar Pistorius crossing the finish line of a 400-meter qualifying heat on his carbon-fiber blades. Suddenly, neither Pistorius' time nor any...
Tags: Oscar Pistorius, Shootings, United Nations, Usain Bolt, Track and Field
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A message to Obama, served cold
In an earlier era, Dr. Benjamin Carson's speech before the National Prayer Breakfast last week would have been a really big deal rather than mere fodder for a brief squall on Twitter and cable news. Born in crushing poverty to an illiterate single...
Tags: Booker T. Washington, Mark Twain, Poverty, Health Care Reform (2009), Barack Obama
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Ghostly ruins reveal one Florida plantation's surprising reality
Not everything was better in the "good old days." That includes tours of historic sites. At Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the early 1970s, I recall docents speaking in hushed tones about "Mr. Jefferson," whose house seemed more a showplace for...
Tags: Plantation, Gardens and Parks, National Parks, Orlando, Tourism and Leisure
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