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...also have a brief retrospective of some of Callie Shell's unique behind-the-scenes pictures of President Obama over the past year, including a fresh and distinctive round of images from just last week. The package also includes pictures from long-term art projects like Andrew Moore's photographs from his two-year undertaking in Detroit (which complements our yearlong focus on that struggling American city) and a picture by Richard Mosse of a surveillance balloon on a U.S. military base in Iraq, shot while working on a series on Saddam's palaces...
...points the last time he stepped onto the Conte hardwood, ended the Crimson’s scoring drought with under five minutes to play in the first half, nailing a long three-pointer that he launched just seconds before the shot clock would have expired...
...Long past dreams of Beltway comity, Obama is now in a political tight spot, wedged between sky-high unemployment and lingering concerns over government spending and debt. That choice pits the President's left flank against his moderate supporters. Meanwhile, Republicans have found some traction on the economy, for which Americans traditionally blame, for good or ill, the guy who calls 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue home. As soon as Obama finished speaking, his foes pulled out their knives too. South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint called Obama "delusional" and "out of control...
...private, Obama's aides have long fretted over the danger of a slow recovery and ballooning deficits, and the President has been slipping in the polls on both fronts. For now, however, the West Wing calculation is that bad polls today matter far less than bad polls three years from now, when Obama hopes to win re-election as the guy who saved the nation from economic catastrophe. "The reality is that you would rather have done something, and worked toward solutions, and be able to show results," explains Obama senior aide Anita Dunn, in what just might...
...Obama has yet to take any clear steps, beyond rhetoric, to reassure investors. His 2010 budget, announced last February, projected medium-term deficits that even Obama's aides agree are unsustainable. And by most accounts, his health care reform package, if it passes, is unlikely to yield the clear long-term savings that Obama once suggested...