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...Gist: Depending on who you talk to, Michelle Obama has either been a valuable, humanizing presence in her husband's historic presidential campaign, or a divisive, cringe-inducing liability. Public curiosity about Michelle - a product of Chicago's South Side, an outspoken Harvard-educated lawyer and a mother of two - has been at a fever pitch since her husband announced his candidacy. It seems an apt time for a biography of Michelle, from her childhood in her family's bungalow on Euclid Avenue to the current campaign, just weeks from its conclusion. Washington Post staffer Liza Mundy offers a rundown...
...obvious. The sympathetic, at times fawning, book relies heavily on sources several circles outward from those who actually know Michelle. The end result is a book that reveals little about Michelle Obama not already in the public domain. There are tidbits here and there - as a corporate lawyer, Michelle handled accounts for Barney, the purple dinosaur - but readers already familiar with Michelle's life story will be disappointed...
...campaign handed me a packet of addresses and sent me out to meet Brian Varrieur. He's a 34-year-old lawyer who lives in Washington, D.C. and looks barely old enough to vote himself. This was the fifth weekend he returned to his parents' home in the neighborhood where he grew up to knock on doors for Obama. Brian is soft-spoken - not exactly a natural personality for this kind of work; back when his elementary school would hold candy-sale drives, "I was one of those kids who would get their next-door neighbor and their...
...point he said that the Waffen S.S., the unit implicated in some of the worst crimes of the Holocaust, was "part of the Wehrmacht (German Army) and thus deserves all the honor and respect of the army in public life." In interviews, including with TIME, the blue-eyed lawyer adamantly denied any sympathy with Hitler's ideas and said that his comments had been taken out of context. But critics suspected him of consciously courting an older generation of ex- Nazis in Austria...
...Harvard Medical School and one of the journal’s editors, responded to the critique, asking for “major modifications” regarding claims of the industry influence on the study’s results. A back-and-forth exchange ensued, and Light soon hired a lawyer, Alan C. Milstein. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...