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...it’s become almost inevitable: You go online, you try—really try—to read something worthwhile about the health-care debate, or Iran, or even something as innocuous as just how much money the famed photographer Annie Leibovitz actually owes. But then, inexplicably, you find yourself clicking through a slideshow about Michelle Obama’s summer wardrobe, and it all goes downhill from there...
Last Wednesday, President Obama gave a long overdue speech about his health-care reform goals. The speech helped clear up many uncertainties that have surfaced over the last couple of months around health-care reform. From tales of death panels to myths about covering illegal immigrants, rumors have spread among Americans and polarized the debate. Some have even come to fear reform and perceive the proposal as a government hijacking of their health. Therefore, we were pleased to hear Obama debunk these rumors and clearly articulate his vision for health-care reform. Obama assured us that no death panels will...
...Barack Obama won the same sort of transformative, generational election in 2008 that John F. Kennedy ’40 won in 1960. Nor is Michelle Obama the first presidential spouse to be a media darling or even an object of national interest. Hillary Clinton, before her infamous health-care debacle in 1993, was similarly fawned over, and Nancy Reagan, with those ever-useful horoscopes, never failed to amuse...
...into the East Coast establishment, her blood does not run blue, and her upbringing was not centered on landing a powerful husband. She has a law degree from Harvard, out-earned her husband before he ran for public office, and has children and a family she still manages to care for. If First Ladies can be said to represent anything at all—and the judges are still out on that one—then Michelle Obama would seem to represent some version of the modern American woman, the woman who is fully engaged in each aspects...
From Paul McCartney: “It’s staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty...