Inauguration | Inauguration
Jan.21.2009
Like millions of people worldwide, I watched the Inauguration yesterday.
Not in its entirety, though I recorded it on my cable box, but on a computer screen, with work colleagues.
It's hard for me to comprehend the positive change I've witnessed in this country. Perhaps that's because I spend much...
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Jan.21.2009
When I was watching president Barack Obama’s inauguration speech, in the back of my head another film was running – actually I was not watching a film but I was looking like a film editor at some footage that I had collected over the years of my life - at many little fragments of films in which...
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Jan.21.2009
And Cool Jew was there.
Today's winner of the inaugural week celebration of multiculturalism in America is Samantha Painter. Samantha receives a free autographed copy of Cool Jew. Mazal tov, Sheebster!
Please respond to our email so we can send out your prize. And friends, don't forget to...
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Jan.21.2009
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 20...Can a man who has been honored by the Queen of England, given a TED award for social activism, named a Time Magazine Person of the Year, nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Grammy and a Nobel Peace Prize be all bad?
Leah Schildkraut thinks he can.
Bono, lead...
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Jan.21.2009
Thomas Hill was a probable suicide, an artist whose work was considered passe toward the end of his life, yet one of his paintings was seen by the Obamas and tens of millions of people _ perhaps hundreds of millions _ during the Presidential Inauguration ceremonies Tuesday. (Click on image to...
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Jan.21.2009
In 1997, I braved the winter cold on January 20 to attend my first ever - and probably only - presidential inauguration. At the time, I'd just moved back from Germany, was in grad school at the University of Virginia working on my PhD in poli sci, and lucked into a couple of tickets. My parents...
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Jan.20.2009
I work in a newsroom at a daily paper. My colleagues are snarky by nature. Maybe wickedly witty is a better description. This morning I arrived around 8:45 with a cup of coffee in hand to find several people gathered around a little television in the quad pod I share with two editors. (The fourth...
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Jan.20.2009
That cloud of energy that enveloped the National Mall this morning, the vapor of an simultaneous exhalation synchronizing the breathing of millions to the beat of one brave and honorable man's heart! Hope was in the air and relief soared alongside, like two birds in flight: we survived eight years...
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Jan.20.2009
Today marks the official launch of Tolerant Nation. This new blog, which will feature posts from a wide variety of guest bloggers in this inaugural year, celebrates multiculturalism and cross-cultural dialogue. It was inspired by the inauguration of now- President Obama. We've formed a coalition of...
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Jan.20.2009
Where were you when you watched President Obama's inauguration? I watched it in a pub in Brixton, South London, with a Black South African man. Please read this article and add your comments. http://www.squidoo.com/Obama-s-Inauguration
How does Obama inspire you? Please read my article on ...
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