Word: briefing
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...talking about their pets. Sure, there is the occasional flash of excitement or wit - like in August, when I said that Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young sounded like the name of a law firm, or November when my friend Marc went golfing in a canyon - but the moments were brief, hidden among anecdotes about breakfast burritos and daytime television programs...
...Read a brief history of television...
Four full days into his Hawaii vacation, Barack Obama went to Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay on Monday for his usual 50-minute workout and made a brief stop at the Kailua Racquet Club, a 72-year-old club that was established as a private hideaway amid a forest but is now in the middle of a residential neighborhood. (He may have played tennis with the First Lady, but that has not been confirmed.) Then the President put on a suit coat - but no tie - as he faced the nation to talk about the attempted terrorist attack...
...brief statement to reporters made clear, President Obama really cannot take a holiday, even in when he goes home to Hawaii. (Or avoid causing apprehension. Later on Monday Obama caused concern when he interrupted a golf game to rush back to his rented residence on Kailuana Place in Kailua, which is on the opposite side of the island of Oahu from Honolulu. An ambulance was seen rushing toward the home as well. The child of a family friend had suffered an injury.)(See how Obama, Hawaii's favorite son, is perking up the state's holidays...
...pictures of a Brief History of Sherlock Holmes...