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...handful of Ivy League schools plus Stanford, MIT, Caltech, the University of Chicago, and Duke round...
...evening, Michelle Obama will surely discuss her husband's many achievements and the promise for America that his groundbreaking candidacy represents. What she is less likely to talk about is just how instrumental she has been to launching her husband's political trajectory or that this tough, razor-smart Chicago native had to sacrifice many of her own career ambitions along...
...From almost the earliest days of their personal and professional partnership, Barack Obama's political aspirations have guided Michelle's path. At the end of the summer of 1989, Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin, a prestigious Chicago law firm that also happened to employ a young intellectual-property lawyer and Harvard Law grad named Michelle Robinson. Obama was offered a permanent job at Sidley, though senior partner Newton Minow wasn't surprised when he turned the firm down; the two had often discussed the intern's political plans, and Minow had pledged to help Obama in his pursuit...
...after a later night at work with colleagues. He hopes to take a vacation in November and, maybe, find a girlfriend. Still, he's hoping to yet again defer that business degree and work in the next administration if Obama wins. In the meantime, he plans on returning to Chicago once the convention is over, though he hasn't had the time to figure out in what capacity. "Believe me," he says, "I'll have plenty of work to do between the end of next week and winning in November...
...this dozens of times. His Kenyan grandfather was indeed a Muslim; his father espoused no faith; Obama attended a Muslim school in Indonesia for a time as a boy because that's where he lived - Indonesia is a Muslim country. He believed in no religion until he moved to Chicago as a grown man and was baptized Christian by Wright. As campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs puts it, "His Christian pastor and this Muslim thing - how can he have problems with both at the same time? Pick...