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...think your body of work is relevant to Obama's election? I'm very attentive to history and to a historical understanding of any given present as a way of both looking back and moving forward. That theme resonated throughout the Obama campaign...
...also of the same generation. Seeing him rise to this mighty challenge and go with such grace and brilliance through the campaign has made a lot of my peers and me say we're going to step up our game. We're going to contribute. We're going to do more. We're going to work harder. We want to be better...
...mosque" and both Hanukkah and Eid are celebrated at the White House, the addition of a rabbi to the lineup would have required balancing with an imam. For a man who will take the oath of office using his full name - Barack Hussein Obama - and spent much of the campaign being dogged by phony rumors that he was a closet Muslim, that might have been a step...
...television are charging car batteries to ensure that not one minute of the inaugural festivities will be lost to the city's chronic power outages. Not even Saturday's suicide car bombing in the capital, which killed four Afghans and one American, has dimmed hopes that Barack Obama's campaign slogan, "Change We Can Believe In," applies just as much in Afghanistan...
...Throughout his campaign Obama correctly (if incompletely, considering the near civil war boiling over in neighboring Pakistan) identified Afghanistan as the central front in the war on terrorism. He has echoed the demands of commanders on the ground for more troops, and the Pentagon has tentatively agreed to send as many as 30,000 more U.S. soldiers to the country. That will nearly double the number of American troops on the ground, and bring the total number of foreign soldiers, including those of NATO nations, to about 92,000. (Iraq, which is smaller in both size and population...