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...Ryan has just faked a loud orgasm at a New York City deli. A waitress turns to an older woman, who remarks, "I'll have what she's having." Thus Estelle Reiner, mother of When Harry Met Sally director Rob Reiner and wife of The Dick Van Dyke Show creatoi Carl, entered Aim history with one of cinema's most famous lines. Reiner, who spent her early life as a visual artist, became a cabaret singer at 60 and took lessons with legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas, will be the nation’s first black president. A graduate of Harvard Law School, the first-term Illinois senator’s win capped off a meteoric rise in which he ascended from the Illinois State Senate to the White House in less than five years...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: OBAMA WINS HISTORIC VICTORY | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...symbolic “wordless prayer,” Tribe presented one of his “proudest possessions”—an American flag smuggled into the internment camp by his mother for his father, who died...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tribe Recalls Obama At HLS | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

Still, the lines for early voting were long, an ominous sign for today's vote. And the fact that people were willing to put up with it reflected voter frustration with Ohio's tanking economy. Bell Bonner, a black, 50-year-old mother, was in line to vote Monday afternoon for Democrat Barack Obama. She had her three toddler-aged children in tow and was calling up nieces and nephews, some of them first-time voters, to join her. "It's the recession," Bonner said when asked why. "It's crime in Cleveland, it's no jobs." She says, "Everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...Like Obama, Hector never really knew his father, a Cuban-born radiologist who died when Hector was a toddler. Raised by his mother, a nurse, Hector says he also feels close to his grandmother, who is in her 80s and still lives in Havana. But the tighter Cuba travel restrictions that President Bush imposed in 2004 means Hector can't visit his abuela as much as he used to - and he's voting for Obama in part because the Illinois Senator has promised to revoke the travel rules. "I've been thinking about that a lot since I heard Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

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