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...television news stunts go, CNN's debut of a "hologram" reporter during its election-night coverage was one of the most talked about - and yes, bizarre - of the past year. "Hi, Wolf!" chirped beaming CNN correspondent Jessica Yellin, who was in Chicago at the victory rally for President-elect Barack Obama yet miraculously appeared on TV to be standing before anchor Wolf Blitzer in the CNN newsroom, waving - and surrounded by a fuzzy white line. In the studio, Blitzer was talking to empty space, although he could see Yellin on a nearby monitor. "We beamed you in here into...
...photograph that circulated in an e-mail last spring, Fidel Castro holds up a poster emblazoned with President-elect Barack Obama’s face, the words “I love this guy!” superimposed above Castro’s head. Despite the e-mail’s subject line—”Fidel Castro endorses Obama”—the former Cuban president had done no such thing. The image was a doctored advertisement aimed at Cuban-American voters circulated by the Florida Republican Party. In a presentation at the Berkman Center...
...positive energy more than cultish character worship. He’s not going to save the world. But he’s going to inspire each of us to do as much as we can. Perhaps Nelson Mandela put it best in his own letter to the President-elect. The world’s secular saint pointed to Obama’s personal narrative as proof that “no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.” As President of the United States...
...longest, most grueling campaigns in modern political history, Barack Obama became the 44th President-elect of the United States, and its first African-American commander in chief. He had mobilized a staff of organizers and volunteers that numbered in the millions, and amassed a war chest of some $700 million. Now, however, the tough work begins. Between today and his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2009, Obama must pick his advisers, organize a staff, appoint his cabinet and learn how to operate the countless levers of control that come with the highest office in the land - everything from getting briefed...
...blacks' support of Obama is that it was not immediate or easy. Many African Americans were initially skeptical about Obama's candidacy, partly because they regarded him as somehow inauthentically black due to his upbringing in Hawaii and Indonesia, as well as his last name, which even the President-elect has described as "funny sounding...