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Obama in Hawai'i: Learning the reality of power (Honolulu Advertiser)

30 Aug 2008

By the time he was 6, Barry Obama was a hyper-aware boy with much to think about. His mother had returned to school at UH and had received a degree in what her family considered an unlikely major — math. She had divorced Barack Obama Sr., who had finished his graduate work at Harvard and was back in Kenya, now living with a third woman. Stanley Ann Dunham had moved on and was soon to wed another ...

Know Your Vino - Savor end of summer with Spanish wine (Missoulian)

30 Aug 2008

Sweaters, hats and scarves are cropping up in display windows around town. Restaurants are reinventing their menus to highlight the culinary jewels of the upcoming harvest. Food magazines are bursting with visions of autumn vegetables dancing along the pages.

Dark sides of politics (Rocky Mount Telegram)

30 Aug 2008

America, America by Ethan Canin; Random House; 480 pages; $27.