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  • September 2008
  • July 2008

    • Obama Revealed Little, Provoked Much as a Prof

      New York Times  |  Jul 30, 08 1:46 PM CDT

      Obama Revealed Little, Provoked Much as a Prof

      (Newser) - Barack Obama stood out as a University of Chicago law professor in the 1990s: He didn't publish, he turned down tenure, he ran for office, and he collected a coterie of adoring liberal students at a largely conservative school. Yet he provoked them to take sides more than he revealed his own ideas. Looking back, former students see what he was doing—preparing for a career in politics, the New York Times reports. More »

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      Barack Obama  • bipartisanship  • University of Chicago  • professor  • oratory

    • Live-In Lovers Hit Record Number

      USA Today  |  Jul 29, 08 7:23 AM CDT

      Live-In Lovers Hit Record Number

      (Newser) - The number of unmarried heterosexual couples living together reached a record 6.4 million in 2007, or 10% of all hetero couples who share a home, according to the Census Bureau. It's a snapshot of the changing American family. Some 2.5 million of the couples—45.5%—are raising at least one biological child of either partner, and 1.3 million—21%—have a child together, reports USA Today. More »

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      marriage  • University of Chicago  • University of Michigan  • Census Bureau  • cohabitation

    • Obama Impressed Law School's Conservatives

      New Republic  |  Jul 23, 08 4:23 PM CDT

      Obama Impressed Law School's Conservatives

      (Newser) - The University of Chicago Law School—an institution noted for its conservative leanings—tried hard to recruit part-time lecturer Barack Obama into academia when his early political career was foundering, the New Republic reports. Some of the school's conservative scholars say they disagreed with Obama's political bent but were impressed with his willingness to hear opposing views—and may even cross over to vote for him. More »

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      Barack Obama  • bipartisanship  • University of Chicago  • professor  • law school

    • Yoga Turning B-Schoolers on Their Heads

      BusinessWeek  |  Jul 20, 08 7:37 PM CDT

      Yoga Turning B-Schoolers on Their Heads

      (Newser) - Inner peace through capitalism? Americans spend $5.7 billion a year on yoga classes and products, and now, BusinessWeek reports, yoga clubs are cropping up in some of the country's most high-pressured institutions: top business schools. "Having a yoga practice helped sort through the white noise," one MIT student said. More »

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      business  • Harvard  • MIT  • stress  • University of Chicago  • capitalism  • Northwestern University  • business school  • yoga  • BusinessWeek

  • June 2008

    • Note to Right: Hyde Park Is Neither Liberal nor Elite

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 11, 08 1:23 PM CDT

      Note to Right: Hyde Park Is Neither Liberal nor Elite

      (Newser) - With the right cranking up to use Obama's Chicago neighborhood as a weapon against him—the Weekly Standard depicting it in a long piece as an liberal elitist bastion —Wall Street Journal columnist (and former Barack neighbor) Thomas Frank says it’s complete bunk. Not only do Hyde Park-ers have a median income below the national and Chicago medians, but if the college town has a political legacy, it’s a conservative one! More »

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      Barack Obama  • Chicago  • University of Chicago  • right-wing attacks  • Hyde Park

    • What Hyde Park Tells Us About Obama

      Weekly Standard  |  Jun 9, 08 7:37 PM CDT

      What Hyde Park Tells Us About Obama

      (Newser) - "It is the most racially integrated neighborhood in the nation's most racially segregated city," Andrew Ferguson writes in the Weekly Standard of the area in south Chicago Barack Obama calls home. It's a college town, a lefty enclave where the moneyed mix with boho bookworms, and "NPR announcer" types  walk the streets wearing wire rims and backpacks. But Hyde Park isn't an ordinary college town, it's an unusually isolated one—an island in the middle of a slum. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Chicago  • University of Chicago  • Bill Ayers  • elitism  • Hyde Park

  • April 2008

    • Dear Michelle: Let Him Light Up

      The Root  |  Apr 29, 08 3:08 PM CDT

      Dear Michelle: Let Him Light Up

      (Newser) - Please, Michelle Obama, can’t Barack have just one cigarette? Your husband “looks tired, and he’s been awful on TV,” declares Paul Devlin at The Root. The “future of the free world depends on” a puff or two, as the Democratic front-runner needs to regain his cool—and quick. Devlin even notes a few side benefits in his open letter to the candidate’s better half. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Michelle Obama  • cigarettes  • University of Chicago

  • March 2008

    • That's Professor Obama to You

      Politico  |  Mar 28, 08 4:28 PM CDT

      That's Professor Obama to You

      (Newser) - Barack Obama was indeed a professor at the University of Chicago's law school, the school said today. The Clinton campaign and the Sun-Times have said otherwise, but academic semantics back the onetime senior lecturer. The university said that title did qualify Obama as a professor—and the law school had even offered him a tenure-track position. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Hillary Clinton  • University of Chicago  • professor  • plagiarism  • Chicago Sun Times

  • February 2008

    • Obama Brain Trust's Key 'Ism' Is Pragmatism

      New Republic  |  Feb 29, 08 9:38 AM CST

      Obama Brain Trust's Key 'Ism' Is Pragmatism

      (Newser) - Barack Obama’s brain trust leans heavily on behavioral economics, the New Republic reports, with academics who start small in their analyses—looking at everyday anomalies—and are relatively ideology-free pragmatists. From his top economic adviser to his health-care and Social Security aides, Obama is surrounded not by "big-think public intellectuals," but rather experts motivated by policy that better accounts for human behavior. More »

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      Barack Obama  • carbon emissions  • nuclear weapons  • University of Chicago  • Austan Goolsbee

    • NIU Gunman Had Stopped Taking Meds

      Chicago Tribune  |  Feb 15, 08 10:38 AM CST

      NIU Gunman Had Stopped Taking Meds

      (Newser) - The gunman who killed five and wounded 15 in a Northern Illinois University lecture hall yesterday was identified this morning as Steven Kazmierczak, an ex-NIU grad student who had won top sociology department honors, the Chicago Tribune reports. "There were no red flags," said the campus police chief. But police said this morning he had recently stopped taking regular medication and had been behaving erratically.