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Your article naming President-Elect Barack Obama as Person of the Year was insightful, interesting and original [Dec. 29]. After two elections in which the American people voted for the guy they'd most like to have a beer with, you illustrated why we voted a different way this time. We finally elected the smartest guy in the room. Erin Pagel-Mohr, REDLANDS, CALIF...
...layoffs in manufacturing, construction and retail. It was the highest figure since 1945. Unemployment stood at 7.2%, with 11.1 million Americans out of work. Financial markets around the world tumbled after the news--viewed as another sign that the U.S. recession appeared no closer to ending--while President-elect Barack Obama said he would move quickly after taking office to pass a stimulus plan...
...hard to show why terror suspects should be housed in Kansas.' SAM BROWNBACK, U.S. Senator, on the possible housing of Guantánamo detainees in his state, as Barack Obama prepares an order to shut down the prison...
...Last week I went to Philadelphia," comedian W.C. Fields once said, "but it was closed." Formerly America's capital and its largest city, Philadelphia lost much of its population and influence over the centuries. But it's open now. As America gets ready for Barack Obama's inauguration, anyone looking for a dose of U.S. history and culture would do well to skip Washington D.C. and head to the City of Brotherly Love...
...during last year's U.S. election campaign, has swapped his plunger for a reporter's notebook on a mission to cover the Gaza war for the conservative website Pajamas TV. Unable to see much of the fighting himself, Wurzelbacher - who during the election campaign warned that a vote for Barack Obama was a vote for the destruction of Israel - picked a fight of his own. Turning on his new colleagues in the foreign press corps, he groused, "You should be ashamed of yourself. You should be patriotic, protect your family and children, not report like you have been doing...