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Ahem. Obama does not have a Kansas accent; he grew up in Honolulu except from ages 6 to 10, when he and his mother lived in Indonesia. His father, though a potent symbol in his childhood, left when Obama was 2. Aside from letters and one visit, he was absent from his son's life. When Obama was 21, his father died in a car accident in Kenya...
...Dreams, we are introduced to another, even more interesting Obama. Far from "wrapping himself in the American flag," as Walters and others have accused him of doing in his convention speech, this Obama railed against the suffocating strictures of race. At the élite Punahou prep school in Honolulu, he was one of only seven or eight black students. He found himself filled with a creeping rage for the assumptions his classmates made about him. At the same time, he was terrified by a sense of not belonging. "I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white...
...continue to be the main contributor to growth in oil demand. The IEA report noted, however, that high prices will "galvanize energy-saving efforts and fuel switching away from oil in China and other non-OECD Asian economies," which will ease price pressures. Kang Wu, an expert at the Honolulu-based East-West Center on China's oil use, predicts China's annual growth rate in oil consumption will fall to 9% next year from 15% this year because of slowing economic growth...
...HONOLULU Gucci's Velluto--made of velvet laced with 24-karat gold and adorned with pearl-and-crystal dragon heads--can be had for $4,800 at the Ala Moana Center...
...BOUNTY HUNTER, A&E, debuts Aug. 31; set in Honolulu...