Obamas Mother Had a Varied International Career

JR — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:08:43 +0000

In the capsule version of the Barack Obama story, his mother is simply the white woman from Kansas. The phrase comes coupled alliteratively to its counterpart, the black father from Kenya. On the campaign trail, Obama has called her his “single mom.” But neither description begins to capture the unconventional life of Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, the parent who most shaped Obama.

Kansas was merely a way station in her childhood, wheeling westward in the slipstream of her furniture-salesman father. In Hawaii, she married an African student at age 18. Then she married an Indonesian, moved to Jakarta, became an anthropologist, wrote an 800-page dissertation on peasant blacksmithing in Java, worked for the Ford Foundation, championed women’s work, helped bring microcredit to the world’s poor.

Killing of glamour model-bodyguard stuns Moscow

JR — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:37:26 +0000

Anna Loginova is photographed in one of her last shoots for the Russian edition of Maxim magazine. But this week, the stunning Loginova became a victim of the criminals she made sure could not get to her millionaire clients. She was killed trying...

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Obamas Mother Had a Varied International Career

Killing of glamour model-bodyguard stuns Moscow