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German "Obama Fingers" Come with Curry!
A friend living in Hamburg, Germany passes on this tasty item from national magazine DER SPIEGEL ONLINE, without comment: TENDER JUICY, OBAMA FINGERS HIT THE SHELVES Many sales executives have drawn the same conclusion: What better poster child for hope than US President Barack Obama? There are Obama dolls, Obama T-shirts, Obama soap-on-a-rope. There is…
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Bashir: Reinventing the Remix
THE BUZZ points out this piece of news from Darfur, which sets my head shaking: In a speech to thousands of Sudanese security forces on Monday, al-Bashir said he had ordered Sudanese aid groups to take over the distribution of all relief inside the country. “We need to clear our country of any spies,” he…
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Does Bilingual Education Help or Hurt?
Today marks the second full week of a very interesting NEW YORK TIMES feature on immigration. The ambitious project, part of the paper’s “Room for Debate” blog, warehouses a lot of really important data including past articles, cool maps that let you toggle back in time to see where different ethnic groups settled (check 1910)…
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Shelby Steele: The GOP Can't Win Either
Despite the cringe-inducing title of his last book, “A Bound Man: Why We’re Excited About Barack Obama and Why He Can’t Win” (out in paperback, y’all!), Shelby Steele is still being afforded the “credibility” of expressing himself on the WALL STREET JOURNAL’s opinion page. Here’s Steele’s valiant attempt to explain to the tastemakers why black…
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March Madness Hits the White House
Selection Sunday kicked off the official beginning of March Madness 2009. And that’s your attorney general, Eric Holder, holding a palm-sized basketball as he speaks with an unidentified attendee at the announcement of the White House Council on Women and Girls in the East Room of the White House last Wednesday. Any guesses as to…
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Stimulating Women?
Flanked by a cadre of beaming, successful women, President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls yesterday. But the president may have to reconcile that with the fact that the centerpiece of his administration so far—the passage of the economic stimulus package—may in fact end up hurting…
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White House Doctor Gives Obama's Stem Cell Policy Extra Credit
One more unexpected and fantastic advantage to having Barack Obama overturn the Bush administration’s ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research: The stem cell research that did go on under Bush was often sponsored by private sources and benefactors. In our current economic downturn, those sources have bit hammered by losses, and might…
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Armed and Not Dangerous
Michelle Obama’s arms have been getting an inordinate amount of attention lately. It’s not unsolicited; the most modern first lady has appeared sleeveless on the covers of Vogue and People, at 10 inaugural balls, at a party for Stevie Wonder, at her husband’s address to Congress, and most recently, in her official White House portrait,…
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Van Jones to Lead Green Jobs Recovery Effort
Green news wires are reporting that Van Jones, longtime social justice activist and green jobs advocate, has been tapped as a “green jobs czar” for the Obama administration—though a White House aide counsels that that title is not entirely accurate. The White House Council on Environmental Quality confirms that such a position has been filled…
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What Does Justice Look Like in Darfur?
Last week, the International Criminal Court, a prosecutorial arm of the United Nations, issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir. The first ever such warrant for a sitting head of state (Bashir bests génocidaires Slobodan Milosevic and former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who were nabbed after leaving power) accuses the president of committing…
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