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Barack Obama knows his background is about as unconventional as Illinois voters will probably ever see in a Senate candidate. He was born in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan economist and a white mother from Kansas, and spent four years of his childhood in Indonesia. His last name rhymes with Osama. So he begins every campaign speech with the question on the audience's mind: "How does a skinny guy with a funny name win an election...
...while the program failed to get completely off its feet, it did score a success in influencing similar changes in many other colleges throughout the nation. According to the Crimson, Yale, Princeton and Ohio State Universities and Kenyan College similarly planned “to integrate ROTC courses into a liberal arts curriculum,” and other colleges considered doing...
...their own doubts." He won't speak of any personal tragedy - a question about his youth yields only a curt pointer back to the movie. "My childhood had no exile, no struggle, no trauma like the Behranis," he says. Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji, the son of a Kenyan-Indian doctor and an English actress, in Yorkshire. In a 1989 Daily Express interview, he said that growing up mixed-race in the '50s made him "an oddity ... I was the darkie one." At 19, he saw Ian Holm's Richard III and realized that the stage would allow...
Ensler says she knows Vagina Warriors when she sees them because of their clarity of purpose, their strength and fearlessness. Ensler is fond of talking about her hero, a Kenyan Vagina Warrior named Agnes Pareyio...
...journey. When Ensler learned about her work, she gave Agnes a jeep, allowing her to save 4,500 more girls from being genitally mutilated. V-Day then raised $60,000 to buy Agnes a house, which now serves as a safe zone and school for 50 Kenyan women...