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...premiere earlier this month in Frankfurt, Hope - The Obama Musical Story received a standing ovation from a crowd of 2,000 mostly adoring Obama fans, proving that while the President's popularity may have waned in the U.S. during his difficult first year in office, he remains a larger-than-life figure in Europe. "Germans have a certain connection to Obama, which proved to be beneficial," American co-creator Randall Hutchins told TIME after the debut on Jan. 17. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...says. "Making the musical resembled Obama's story in a way. We had very little in the beginning, meager means, a meager budget ... Obama inspired me to reach higher." Their plan is to take Hope on tour across Germany and then the rest of Europe. Hutchins acknowledges that it may be commercially difficult to take the show to the U.S., however, given the current gloom surrounding the Obama presidency. (Read "Does Scott Brown's Senate Win Mean the End of Health Reform...
...with fewer individuals falling behind on their mortgage or credit-card bills. But programs like the government's Home Affordable Modification Program are allowing some borrowers to skip mortgage payments and temporarily lower their bills. If that is the main reason banks are reporting fewer bad loans, that improvement may not last...
...may often appear easier to pave a road than to work with often fractious local officials to figure out the provision of services for their communities. And militarily speaking, it is a lot easier to tackle the guy who is planting IEDs than the one who is spreading false rumors. Yet in the long run, it is the more difficult tasks that will bear the most results. Flynn, Pottinger and Batchelor compare the war to a political campaign, albeit a violent one: "If an election campaign spent all of its effort attacking the opposition and none figuring out which districts...
Looking for parallels to Haiti's catastrophe, many point to China. In May 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern province of Sichuan, pancaking homes, schoolhouses and other buildings and killing at least 68,000 people. But the ferocity of the temblors and the huge death tolls may be the only parallels between the two quake-stricken nations...