Cleaning up road kill and maintaining runways may not sound like cutting-edge investments. But banks and funds with big money seem to think so. Reeling from more exotic investments that imploded during the credit crisis, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ...
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“I think he may have learned at that time that power is everything and weakness is nothing.” Bob Crawford, retired political editor of Chicago news radio station WBBM-AM Richard J. Daley (right) served for 21 years before he died in 1976. His son ...
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DENVER -- Michelle Obama helped kick off the Democratic National Convention on Monday night by battling the demon that has plagued her since February. The accomplished 44-year-old attorney and wife of Sen. Barack Obama, who is expected to accept the ...
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As you might imagine, for Barack, running for President is nothing compared to that first game of basketball with my brother Craig. I can’t tell you how much it means to have Craig and my mom here tonight. Like Craig, I can feel my dad looking down ...
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DENVER (AP) _ Meet Cindy Lerner and Leeann Ormsbee, the two faces of Barack Obama's struggle to win over Hillary Rodham Clinton's most fervent supporters — a task that could determine whether he becomes president. They travel in different social ...
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NPR.org , August 25, 2008 · In these prepared remarks provided by the campaign, Michelle Obama talks about her personal story of growing up on the South Side of Chicago and giving up a corporate law job for public service. She discusses her marriage ...
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Prepared remarks of Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, for her address to the Democratic National Convention on Monday night in Denver, as released by the Obama campaign: OBAMA: As you might imagine, for Barack ...
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