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...specific achievement than a birthright. This drive puts Obama at odds with his own political persona. Much of the excitement that surrounds him comes from the perception that he is only lightly tethered to race. Yet the very arc of his life--from Hawaii to the South Side of Chicago--has been shaped by an often conscious resolve to "belong" irrefutably to the black identity...
...after college Barack Obama spent three years as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago. I spent my first three years after college in the late '60s working in Great Society programs in East St. Louis, Ill. These were encounters with deep, seemingly intractable, black poverty. And I am sure that Obama, like me, was motivated by a genuine desire to do something good. But on another level these were also very likely quests for racial authenticity--for a resolution of that peculiar alienation that trails mixed-race people, that absence of a simple racial solidarity that...
Raise your hand if you knew that Mitt Romney's given name was actually Willard Milton. Anyone? Both names honor men close to Romney's father, former Michigan Governor George W. Romney. Mitt--short for Milton--comes from a cousin who played quarterback for the Chicago Bears from 1925 to '29. And Willard is derived from the elder Romney's close friend and fellow Mormon J. Willard Marriott, who founded the eponymous hotel chain...
...individuals, alone. But the figures of the protracted massacre?six of every nine Jews in Europe?were ungraspable. One grisly comparison: allowing 120 pounds to the Jew, the Nazis butchered 720,000,000 pounds of meat and bone, 13 times the daily slaughter of the Chicago stockyards...
...early too tell how even Black Friday weekend will shake out. Retailers don't report their November sales until early December, and the estimates by research firms range from a glum 6% decrease in purchases by NPD Group to a cheery 7.2% increase as tallied by ShopperTrak in Chicago, Illinois. For its part, the National Retail Federation (NRF) estimated that mall shoppers spent $347.44 or 3.5% less this past weekend than they did over the same period last year...