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...that of his family and that of the residents of a middle-class suburban Chicago neighborhood. Barack and Michelle have their first date against a backdrop of red roses, and later he mourns the death of his beloved grandmother Toot. Meanwhile, in the Chicago suburbs, the conservative German-American widow Mrs. Schultz and the Obama-supporting Johnson family bond over their worries (the Johnsons' son is missing in Iraq; Mrs. Schultz has lost her house) and their excitement about the 2008 presidential election. Mrs. Schultz, a McCain supporter at first, is eventually wooed to the Obama side...
Reinvigorated by the President's support, King's widow, Coretta, testified before joint hearings of Congress and organized a nationwide lobby to support the bill. Yet in November 1979, Conyers' King-holiday bill was defeated in the House by just five votes. Coretta continued her fight for approval of a national holiday, testifying before Congress several more times and mobilizing governors, mayors and city council members across the nation to make the passage of a King-holiday bill part of their agenda. Singer Stevie Wonder became a prominent proponent and released the song "Happy Birthday" in 1980 - it became...
...village where the attack took place, is particularly dangerous. Many of us have seen this picture, taken just off our favorite beach. And if anyone doubted just how deadly these waters can be, on Nov. 15, 2004, a great white made off with Tyna Webb, a 77-year-old widow taking her morning dip. That attack, like the one that killed 37-year-old Zimbabwean Loyd Skinner on Jan. 12, was watched by helpless shark spotters sitting with their binoculars on a mountainside above the beach...
...Democrats are doing their best to make sure that doesn't happen. They have closed ranks around Coakley in the last week, with Kennedy's widow, Vicki Kennedy, endorsing her; the Kennedys were miffed at first by Coakley's candidacy, announced less than a week after the Senator's burial. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee dispatched Michael Meehan, a media consultant familiar with Massachusetts politics, to Boston to help the campaign, and former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to hold a rally with her later this week...
...year after the murder of the prominent Sri Lankan editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, the island's independent media is still under siege. An investigation into Wickrematunge's death has gone nowhere, and at least half a dozen other journalists, including his widow, have left the country in fear since his death...