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Barack Obama: Once a senator...
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated Once a senator always a senator. It takes getting used to -- the White House -- we understand. But President Barack Obama's staff apparently still is getting accustomed to the new surroundings, judging from the......Tags: National Government, Washington, DC, Government, Barack Obama
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Obama: Bulls, courtside, cutting deficit
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama, wearing a black collarless shirt and slacks with a collared black jacket, left the White House tonight for a night of bigtime basketball in downtown Washington. The presidential motorcade reached the...Tags: National Government, Chicago Bulls, Government, David Axelrod, Antawn Jamison
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Kathleen Sebelius: HHS secretary
The Swampby Mark Silva Kathleen Sebelius, governor of Kansas, has accepted President Barack Obama's nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services, White House sources are reporting this evening. Obama plans to announce the selection on Monday, according...Tags: Ohio, Government, Kansas, Barack Obama, Regional Authority
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Commander-in-sneaks: Obama's hoops
The Swampby Mark Silva President George W. Bush had his mountain bike. President Barack Obama has his basketball. The former president would slip out of the White House on a Saturday morning, if slipping entails a high-speed motorcade, and head for......Tags: Billiards, Snooker and Pool, George Bush, Government, Chicago Bulls, Barack Obama
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Obama's agenda upended by economy?
The Swampby Frank James The optimistic economic assumptions in President Barack Obama's budget overview now seem like a cruel joke after yesterday's GDP report that the economy contracted by 6.2 percent in 2008's fourth-quarter. The Obama Administration's growth...Tags: Economic Indicator, Government, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Budgets and Budgeting
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Michelle Obama sleeveless at 1600 Penn
The Swampby Mark Silva There comes a time when all the fashion and popular magazines' obsessions with the arms of the first lady become, well, secondary to the White House's own portrayal of the sleeveless new occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.......Tags: Heads of State, Newspaper and Magazine, Pennsylvania, Government, Books and Magazines
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5th District race in final lap, will be close call
Tribune reportersThe competitiveness of the Democratic race to replace Rahm Emanuel in Congress was on display Saturday as candidates crisscrossed the North and Northwest Sides to glad hand at bowling alleys, throughout the Bungalow Belt and even on Irish radio shows. As...Tags: Roland Burris, Patrick O'Connor, Government, Primaries, O'Hare International Airport
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Will the Obamas' interest in the arts create an inflation of appreciation?
Tribune NewspapersBarack and Michelle Obama and their daughters spent the evening of Feb. 6 in the presidential box at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, applauding the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Evidently it was the first family's idea of a...Tags: Opera, Goodman Theatre, George Bush, Government, Minority Groups
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Allowance a small price for fiscally savvy kids
McClatchy/Tribune NewspapersMcClatchy/Tribune Newspapers What are appropriate allowance guidelines for the Obama girls—and for other kids? Janet Bodnar, editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, offers these tips: Allowance amount: Bodnar says Sasha and Malia...Tags: Family
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2009 version of victory garden could sprout success for U.S.
In Jerzy Kosinski's novel and award-winning screenplay, "Being There," the U.S. president turns to a plain-spoken gardener named Chance for wisdom at a time of economic crisis. The insight Chance offers is as simple as it is reassuring: Growth has its...Tags: National Government, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jerzy Kosinski, Government, United Nations
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Chicago Bulls disappoint president in loss to Washington Wizards
Tribune reporterWASHINGTON — For the country's sake, let's hope President Barack Obama's stimulus package is more effective than his pep talk to the Bulls. For the Bulls' sake, Friday night had better serve as the nadir if the playoffs and progress are goals. One...Tags: Derrick Rose, Lindsey Hunter, Chicago Bulls, Norm Van Lier, Barack Obama
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On the court
After a night of watching hoops, it was time for the president to take the court himself. Obama played basketball for nearly two hours Saturday at the Interior Department, a few blocks from the White House. On Friday night, Obama watched from courtside...Tags: National Government, U.S. Department of the Interior, Chicago Bulls, Government, Barack Obama
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