Archive for November, 2008

FIJI WINS $300,000 AND A PLACE IN THE SEMI-FINAL.

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Fiji Bati advanced into the semi-final of the 2008 Rugby League World Cup after defeating Ireland 30-14 in their sudden-death semi-final qualifier on the Gold Coast, Australia.

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PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA. ‘My tears stood for all the things I believe in’

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

I was at home with my husband and two of my three children when we found out that Barack Obama was our next president. I cried, for the renewal of the American dream. I cried for my three adopted children, all children of colour. I cried for my Italian immigrant mother who was not here to see her dream fulfilled.

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WITNESSING HISTORY. How Americans share where they were and how they felt when Obama was elected.

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

At exactly 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Bonie Allen of Petaluma and her daughter, Nina Kelsey, were crossing Donner Pass “after having struggled in the dark to put on our never-before-used tire chains”.

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U.S. SEN. BARACK OBAMA of Illinois is the Democratic candidate for U.S. president in the Nov. 4 election.

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Family: Barack Obama was born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and a white American mother. His father, Barack Obama Sr., married his mother, Ann Dunham, while studying at the University of Hawaii.
Age: 47 Birthdate: Aug. 4, 1961

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