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Vanity Fair:
Becoming Obama — When Barack Obama met Genevieve Cook in 1983 at a Christmas party in New York's East Village, it was the start of his most serious romance yet. But as the 22-year-old Columbia grad began to shape his future, he was also struggling with his identity: American or international?
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Obama: ‘New York girlfriend’ was composite — One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama's 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called ‘New York girlfriend.’ Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail.
ABCNEWS:
Designer of Ann Romney's $1K Shirt Says It's Off The Rack — CHANTILLY, Va. — The fashion house that makes the nearly $1,000 blouse worn by Ann Romney on morning television earlier this week tells ABC News that they had nothing to do with the wardrobe choice, remarking that they'd prefer to stay out of politics.
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Jada Wong / Styleite:
Ann Romney's Reed Krakoff Bird T-Shirt Costs $990 — Today Mitt and Ann Romney appeared on CBS's This Morning to talk about Barack Obama, Osama bin Laden, and a slew of other political things. Sharp eyes over at The Cut noticed that Ann was wearing a bird-printed t-shirt by Reed Krakoff.
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Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Ann Romney's $990 shirt - worth it? — Like the shirt that Ann Romney was wearing on Tuesday? It'll cost you a pretty penny. — The bird print top, made by Reed Krakoff costs $990, a saleswoman at the designer's store in Manhattan told Styleite. The piece is part of the Krakoff's spring 2012 ready-to-wear collection.
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Joel Siegel / Yahoo! News:
Newt Gingrich $4 Million in Debt; Staffers and Creditors Fume — Newt Gingrich ends his White House dream today with his political committee facing a mountain of debts — owing about $4 million to scores of businesses and campaign workers around the country who fear they will never get paid.
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Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Newt Gingrich drops out: ‘Truly wild ride’ is over — ARLINGTON, Va. — Newt Gingrich finally called it quits. — For all intents and purposes, his campaign was over months ago. — In a hotel ballroom steps from a Washington D.C.-area subway stop Wednesday afternoon …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Wife Of Key Legislator Behind North Carolina's Anti-Gay Amendment Claims It Would Protect ‘Caucasian’ Race — The wife of a prominent North Carolina state senator and supporter of Amendment 1 — a proposed ballot initiative that would outlaw same-sex marriage, civil unions …
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Pam Spaulding / Firedoglake:
Wife of NC State Senator: Amendment One Needed ‘To Protect the Caucasian Race’ — I don't even know where to begin to unpack this trash. Chad Nance who is a freelance journalist in Winston-Salem and is covering the election here in NC, recorded the wife of NC Sen. Peter Brunstetter confirming …
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Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:
Warren: I used minority listing to make friends — Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade …
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Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
White and wrong: On the reservation with Elizabeth Warren
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Obama's Not-So-Hot Date With Wall Street — In late January, Brad Thompson, the Obama campaign's chief liaison to major donors in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, called some of his contacts in the area, most of them Wall Street executives. The president's next trip to town would be in early March.
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Amitai Etzioni / CNN:
Why Occupy May Day fizzled — Occupy Wall Street participants stage …
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Frances Robles / MiamiHerald.com:
George Zimmerman's crude Myspace page from 2005 uncovered — While it includes photos of an ethnically diverse group of friends, the murder defendant's 2005 web presence includes disparaging remarks about Mexicans. — FROBLES@MIAMIHERALD.COM — SANFORD — Just as George Zimmerman's attorney pushes …
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Washington Post:
Chen Guangcheng leaves U.S. embassy; deal to guarantee his safety may be unraveling, friends say — BEIJING — Blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who fled de facto house arrest last month and sought refuge for six days at the U.S. Embassy, left the diplomatic compound on Wednesday …
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Sean Sullivan / Hotline On Call:
Lugar, Mourdock in Dead Heat in New Poll — Sen. Richard Lugar and Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock are in a dead heat according to a poll released Wednesday that was conducted for the Lunch Pail Republicans, a pro-labor group that announced its support for Lugar on the same day.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Other McCain and M.JOSEPH SHEPPARD'S …
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Steve Kornacki / Salon:
It's starting to look over for Dick Lugar
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Marquette Law School Poll:
Marquette Law School Poll shows Barrett leads Falk in recall primary; Walker and Barrett within single percentage point — Milwaukee, Wis. - With less than a week until the primary in the historic Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election, a new Marquette Law School Poll shows Tom Barrett …
utsandiego.com:
Man abandoned in DEA cell steps forward — He screamed. He kicked madly at the door. He cried like a baby. Then, locked inside a five-by-10-foot windowless cell and seemingly forgotten, the hallucinations crept in. — Daniel Chong said nothing made sense.
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Sarah Grieco / KNSD-TV:
DEA Ignored All My Cries: Student
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
‘Saturday Night Live’ creator: Romney won't be on show this season — Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels said presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney will not be on the show this season, but left the door open to Romney making an appearance when it returns in the fall.
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Bill Clinton / New York Times:
‘The Passage of Power,’ Robert Caro's New L.B.J. Book — “The Passage of Power,” the fourth installment of Robert Caro's brilliant series on Lyndon Johnson, spans roughly five years, beginning shortly before the 1960 presidential contest, including the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis …
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John Sides / FiveThirtyEight:
Is Obama More Popular Than He Should Be? — It's well known that presidential approval ratings are a powerful predictor of election outcomes. President Obama's current 47 percent approval rating would be among the lowest approval ratings of any incumbent president who went on to be re-elected.
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Brian Beutler / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC — 40 Years Of Workers Left Behind (CHART) — Economic fairness is one of the persistent themes of the 2012 election, and in that spirit the liberal Economic Policy Institute is revisiting the plight of the U.S. worker over the last several decades.
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ABCNEWS:
Romney, In Cell Phone Video, Opines on Wealth — CHANTILLY, Va. - At a private fundraiser at the home of pizza giant John Schnatter last month, Mitt Romney is seen on a cell phone video offering his candid thoughts on how Democrats and Republicans view wealth.
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Michelangelo Signorile / The Huffington Post:
The Richard Grenell Fiasco: How a Cynical Political Move Blew Up in Mitt Romney's Face … Elections 2012 , Richard Grenell , Richard Grenell Mitt Romney , Richard Grenell Resigns , Richard Grenell Romney , Gay Voices News — A week ago a Washington reporter contacted me to discuss Mitt Romney's hiring …
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