Word: hawai
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...were ecstatic - with more than just local pride. The local economy, like everywhere else in the world, has suffered with the global financial crisis. Local enterprises were eager to latch on to the state's most famous son in hopes of reviving business. Indeed, as early as November, the Hawai'i Visitors and Convention Bureau unveiled a micro site at www.gohawaii.com/Obama, that tracks the President-elect's Hawaii, including everything from his Honolulu birthplace to the exclusive Punahou School where he studied to the place where he ate shave ice, a local palate pleaser, during his previous vacation...
...culture. Take the nickname he uses for his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. It's short for tutu, the Hawaiian term for grandmother. And, to the islanders, it means that even though Obama may be the U.S. senator from Illinois, he really is at heart a Honolulu-born, son of Hawai'i who will drop anything to care for his family, says another Hawaii-born politician, Democratic state Sen. Clayton Hee. "It is all at once a message to the world," says Hee, a Native Hawaiian who has served as the chairman of the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs...
...long it takes to get here," Abercrombie says. "If the physicians say it's a serious situation, you don't hesitate to come, particularly if it's his grandmother and the last link to his mom. It's the Hawaiian style, the way we deal with things in Hawai'i. Its all family. It's all ohana. We all come together...
Acts before intermission spanned from Holoimua O Hawai'i's Samoan and Hawaiian cultural dances to the Hellenic Society's "Butcher's Dance" and the Thai Society's "Fish-Catching Dance...