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...Israeli security sources say that Obama will be accorded "near presidential" security during his two-day visit to Israel, with a brief foray into the Palestinian territories to meet President Mahmoud Abbas. On his swing through Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East and Europe, Obama aimed to show voters that despite his limited experience in foreign affairs, he is a quick study...
...mannerisms became more pronounced. By the time of his 1986 return to Russia, he had become a musical dwarf star, with an imploding repertory and an arch delivery that only occasionally approximated the youthful firebrand or the mature, thoughtful artist he had once been. The Columbia set records that brief moment when he put it all together and cemented his place in history. For now, at least...
...followed in her parents' wayward footsteps, remained very much the proper granddaughter, combining ''ante-bellum manners and New England values.'' In later years she would go through a divorce and marry a white man, the orchestra leader and arranger Lennie Hayton. Between marriages she would even dare a brief fling with Joe Louis. But until she was 19, Lena had never had a boyfriend. Rather disastrously, she married one of the first men she dated: Louis Jones, a minister's son. Led by her mother, little Gail became part of a new and vibrant phase of black bourgeois life...
...case last fall - as well as for Robert Murat, the Portuguese-based Briton named as a suspect almost immediately after Madeleine's disappearance in May 2007. The three, who strenuously denied any involvement, are now cleared of suspicion. "We welcome the news today," Kate McCann said Monday in a brief statement to reporters near the couple's central England home, "although it is no cause for celebration...
...southern Portuguese resort town of Praia da Luz - parents Kate and Gerry were eating at a tapas bar in the resort complex at the time - a high-profile push to find Madeleine was launched. Soccer star David Beckham appealed for information. Kate and Gerry McCann even secured a brief audience with the Pope. And while reported sightings came to nothing, millions of dollars poured into a fund to help track down the couple's daughter...