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Dates: during 2000-2009
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KAMPALA, Uganda — He is young, no older than 19. “My name is Yoweri,” he declares, “like the president.” I learn this detail only after I’ve climbed on his motorcycle and weaved through traffic in silence for five minutes...
After a time, Obama steps away, and Biden reaches for his wedge. The ball miraculously splits the trunks and bounds onto the green, less than 20 feet from the pin. Amid the caravan of golf carts, including those of the Secret Service detail, a doctor and the ever present nuclear-code-toting military aide, there is an eruption of applause. "Calm under pressure," Obama calls out, bequeathing to Biden his own most valued attribute. "That's why he's my Vice President...
...doesn't have to peer too far back at previous health-reform efforts to realize that "the devil is in the detail," as Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff and a veteran of health-reform efforts under Clinton, recently said. Emanuel helped work on the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), one of several incremental changes made after Clinton's comprehensive reform failed to go anywhere in 1994. HIPAA was intended to ensure that Americans would not be denied coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions when they switched coverage while moving from...
...hours on Tuesday evening. Even if the former President didn't - as the White House insisted - bring a specific message to Kim from Obama, it's safe to assume the two men didn't play hearts (Clinton's favorite card game) for three hours. Matters of substance, in some detail, came up, and even before Clinton can be debriefed, the outside world has learned at least a couple of things from the visit. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...
...detail that's missing from Bing's home page is any mention of Microsoft. (There are small tabs that link to MSN and Windows Live, but they're easy to miss.) Omitting Microsoft's name is no accident - it's an effective way of positioning Bing as a cool new search engine rather than a site sponsored by a gigantic corporation that's often seen as the antithesis of cool. (See the best social-networking applications...