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...became at the unlikeliness of Barack's ascension. This is the story of a grandfather whose stubborn will found a match in the austerity of Islam and drove his son to seek a scholarship abroad, which in turn led the young man to Hawaii, where he met and married Ann, a Christian, and had a son--who, at 47, will become the first black President of the U.S. There are so many unlikelihoods in his story that an Obama victory seemed like a fairy tale. As Election Day approached, I told Malik I was getting nervous for him. "Look...
Diana G. Kimball ’09, a native of Ann Arbor, Mich. who is registered in Cambridge, said she voted to decriminalize marijuana because “having a criminal record is really serious,” but added that she generally feels less educated about the ballot questions than about the presidential race...
McCain campaign advisor Charles Black has been touting a much closer race - reportedly within one or two points - based on internal party polling in Iowa. But J. Ann Selzer, a leading local pollster whose company Selzer & Co.Inc of Des Moines, does the Register's poll, is skeptical. "I say show me the numbers. It sounds impossible to me," says Selzer. "I would question who are they counting as a likely voter, whether they are weighting by party ID and those weights might be outweighed. There just isn't a scenario that makes it look like this is very close...
...Obama may be the man of the hour, or of the year, but his biography is defined by the women in his family. Ann Dunham was the "mother from Kansas" who married the man from Kenya. Michelle Williams Obama, the candidate's wife, has become an important, increasingly warming voice on the campaign stump. His daughters Malia and Sasha stole the show the opening night of the Democratic National Convention...
...against her parents' wishes, married him in 1940. When he enlisted in the Army during World War II, she got a job on a Wichita assembly line making Boeing B-29s. Their daughter was born in 1942, and because Stanley had wanted a boy, they named the girl Stanley Ann. Over the next two decades, Dunham moved at least five times - always in pursuit of her husband's next adventure as a salesman. In 1960 the Dunhams moved to Honolulu, and a year later, Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born...