Word: hand
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...first knew him when he was my tutee at Harvard, and after he finished law school, I took him into the White House, where he soon made himself indispensable. Within a year or so, he was responsible for preparing materials for every negotiation and was always at my right hand...
...Hawaii, and Obama has made an effort to mingle with the Marines stationed there. Every morning but Christmas Day Obama has worked out at the facility, pausing afterward to greet the service members and their friends and family who gather near his motorcade to take pictures and shake his hand. On Christmas Eve, Obama greeted the crowd outside the gym with a hearty "Mele Kalikimaka!," Hawaiian for "Merry Christmas...
...with infirmities, he could still distinguish politics from life. "When my wife Antonia is pouring my cranberry juice in the morning," he said, "I don't regard that as a political act. Nor am I thinking politically at the time, though I do have the Guardian to my left hand and the cranberry juice to my right. But Antonia's act of passing the cranberry juice to me is an act of married love. I should say that, without her, I couldn't have coped over the last few years. I'm a very lucky man in every respect...
...Another time, he flies through the air to return a kidnapped boy. And most impressive of all, he discovers a triple homicide and brings the victims - three children who had been chopped into bits and stored in pickle jars - back to life. Compared to this, making an Xbox by hand is probably child's play...
With no scheduled public appearances Obama has done his best to avoid the traveling press corps and the dozens of local media members, paparazzi and others trying to snap a photo or shake the hand of the man who will be President. On Tuesday, 37 photos taken Sunday of a shirtless and buff Obama lounging with his family outside of estate where they are staying were sent by Bauer Griffin, a Los Angeles photo agency, to the Huffington Post, TMZ.com and Celebuzz.com, according to the Associated Press. The pictures show Barack and Michelle Obama and their daughters in bathing suits...