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...cried a lot," says her daughter Maya Soetoro-Ng, "if she saw animals being treated cruelly or children in the news or a sad movie-or if she felt like she wasn't being understood in a conversation." And yet she was fearless, says Soetoro-Ng. "She was very capable. She went out on the back of a motorcycle and did rigorous fieldwork. Her research was responsible and penetrating. She saw the heart of a problem, and she knew whom to hold accountable...
...relied on her parents to help take care of young Barack. She would get her bachelor's degree four years later. In the meantime, she met another foreign student, Lolo Soetoro, at the University of Hawaii. ("It's where I send all my single girlfriends," jokes her daughter Soetoro-Ng, who also married a man she met there.) He was easygoing, happily devoting hours to playing chess with Ann's father and wrestling with her young son. Lolo proposed...
...that bigotry of any sort was wrong and that the goal was then to treat everybody as unique individuals." Ann gave her daughter, who was born in 1970, dolls of every hue: "A pretty black girl with braids, an Inuit, Sacagawea, a little Dutch boy with clogs," says Soetoro-Ng, laughing. "It was like the United Nations." (Watch a slideshow of Joe Klein's exclusive interview with Obama...
...meter hurdles, completing the event in 14.78.Juniors Favia Merritt and Brittan Smith finished second and third in the 100-meter dash with 12.34 and 12.49 finishes, respectively, and again in the 200-meter dash with 25.24 and 25.32 times, respectively. Rookie Jamie Olson and junior Jan Ng placed second and fifth in the women’s 800-meter run at 2:14.03 and 2:15.54, respectively.Freshman Brian Hill placed fourth in the men’s 800-meter run with a 1:53.50 finish. Sophomore Justin Grinstead and freshman Dina Emde both notched solid performances in the 400-meter...
...Jamie Olson finished in 5:01.15, earning third place, while Eliza Ives crossed in 5:05.09, good enough for sixth and a personal-best for Ives by 13 seconds. Fellow freshman Meghan Cleary was third in the 3,000 meters, finishing in 10:02.12, a personal best. Junior Jan Ng added six points by placing third in the 800 meters after clocking a time of 2:14.64, her fastest of the year and less than a second behind the winner. The women’s 4x400 relay and distance medley teams also placed, giving the Crimson a total...