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...unlike, say, John Kerry, Obama is a master at shaping his own mythology. When he talks of his childhood, we hear little of his Hawaii years, of his fondness for bodysurfing and sashimi. Instead we hear in every speech that his mother was from Kansas ("That's why I talk the way I do") and his father was from Kenya ("He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack...
Even then, though, "he had powers," remembers his half sister Maya Soetoro-Ng. "He was charismatic. He had lots of friends." In high school, he used to stroll over to the Manoa campus of the University of Hawaii to "meet university ladies," says Soetoro-Ng, who still lives in Honolulu...
...weapons of mass destruction (wmd) but why, with the best intelligence our hard-earned tax money could buy, the U.S. was totally fooled - and as a result has lost more than 1,100 precious American lives. I shudder to think what other surprises await us. J. Connor Boggs Kaneohe, Hawaii, U.S. The U.S. and Britain may have gone into Iraq under false pretenses. But had we not taken the action we did, we probably would seriously regret it in the long run. Saddam certainly had ambitions that, given time to mature, would have affected all the world, greatly...
...knew how to confront disaster! One bright spring day, we all filed out to the football field after school. A teacher had placed fluorescent cones from the field house in a big rectangle to represent Colorado. (In retrospect, it seems fortunate that the tragedy did not occur in, say, Hawaii.) We all jostled into the outline. Taking direction from someone standing in the bleachers, a group of athletes in bright-red varsity jackets clustered in a heart shape in the center of the crowd. They were supposed to represent the bereaved Littleton. We stood there until an aerial photograph...
...TALE: A tiger shark attacked Hamilton as she surfed in Hawaii last Halloween, chomping off her left arm and taking a bite out of her board...