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LAT/Khalidi: Why is promise-keeping controversial?
Spin CycleIn the spring, the LATimes wrote -- broke -- a story about a party Barack Obama attended for a friend, Rashid Khalidi (left), a Palestinian professor at the University of Chicago (and now Columbia) who some on the right......Tags: Barack Obama
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McCain camp: Obama videotape hidden
The Swampby Mark Silva The McCain campaign, amassing late-campaign ammunition for its appeal to Jewish voters, is calling on the Los Angeles Times to release a videotape of a 2003 banquet where Barack Obama spoke of his friendship with Rashid Khalidi,......Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Judaism, Newspapers, Florida
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Chicagoan Tina Tchen going to Obama WH
The Swampby Christi Parsons and John McCormick A prominent Chicago lawyer who was one of Barack Obama's top fundraisers will be appointed to run the Office of Public Liaison for the White House, the Tribune has learned. The formal appointment of......Tags: Barack Obama, Housing and Urban Planning, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Sexual Assault
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Obama takes another Chicagoan to WH
The SwampBy John McCormick Barack Obama is taking another Chicagoan with him to the White House and this one happens to be his wife's former boss. A transition aide said this afternoon that Susan Sher will be named associate counsel to......Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Barack Obama, Heads of State, Government, Richard M. Daley
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Sweet Home Chicago II: Honeyboy's ball
The Swampby Mark Silva It's a long road, with more than a few crossroads: Picking up a homemade guitar in the Mississippi Delta, making one's way to Chicago to play with most of the blues greats of the time, picking up......Tags: Barack Obama, Natural Resources, Government, Popular Music (genre), Mississippi
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Obama: Steelers (Rooney's a buddy)
The Swampby Mark Silva One good endorsement deserves another. Back when then-Sen. Barack Obama was waging an uphill battle for Pennsylvania's Democrats in the party presidential primaries there, Dan Rooney, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, stepped up to the plate...Tags: Dan Rooney, Baseball, Barack Obama, Chicago Bears, Cinderella (fictional character)
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Obama's daughters: School's in
The Swampby Mark Silva There's got to be a morning after. And this morning -- the day after President Barack Obama publicly made fun of Washington, D.C., for closing its schools, including his daughters' school, in the face of an ice......Tags: Barack Obama, White House, Sidwell Friends School, Government, National Government
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Rahm Emanuel back to Congress?
The Swampby John McCormick and Dan Mihalopoulos White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is interested in potentially returning to Chicago someday to reclaim the congressional seat he held until a month ago, a candidate running to replace him said Sunday.......Tags: Barack Obama, Housing and Urban Planning, Delta Air Lines, Chicago Housing Authority, Government
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Obama taps right, left for econ advice
The Swampby Christi Parsons President Barack Obama plans to name conservative economist Martin Feldstein, a recent critic of his stimulus plan, to serve on a special panel advising him on economic policy. Feldstein will join an array of prominent CEOs and......Tags: AFL-CIO, Barack Obama, Federal Reserve, Economic Policy, Government
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Financial bailout-angst: 'People are mad'
The Swampby Mark Silva Outrage - that's what members of Congress are voicing at the bankers hauled before them to account for what happened with billions of bailout dollars. (See the Tribune Bureau's story below about the "masters of the universe''......Tags: Barack Obama, Federal Reserve, Disasters, Barney Frank, Economy, Business and Finance
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White House: 'Suffocating' if cloistered
The Swampby Mark Silva The college kids - okay, men and women - trying to sleep in this morning along Woodlawn Avenue on the South Side of Chicago were rudely awakened by the bullhorns of police calling on everyone to get......Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, White House, Texas, Government
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NBA stars critique Barack Obama's game
The SwampEmbedded video from CNN Video By John McCormick and Stacy St. Clair, updated The morning after a romantic Valentine's Day dinner out, President Barack Obama hit the basketball court Sunday to burn off a few calories and visit with some......Tags: Baseball, Barack Obama, Boston Celtics, Crime, Law and Justice, Restaurants
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