Tag: obama

• Game Change: Obama, Hillary, McCain

  Hillary Clinton did not want to be Secretary of State when Barack Obama offered her the job — and one reason she gave was her husband, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin in their book, Game Change, describe Obama’s midnight meeting with Hillary in Washington two weeks after he won the presidential election in November 2008:…

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  Abhijit

  April 21, 2010

  Books

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• The Twelve Days Of Christmas by Carol Ann Duffy

  Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has written a new Twelve Days Of Christmas for Radio Times. It’s all about current affairs, touching on Afghanistan, the drought in sub-Saharan Africa, the financial crisis, the election of Barack Obama, the British MPs’ expenses scandal, and the Copenhagen climate summit. This is how the poem goes: 1 ON…

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  Abhijit

  December 6, 2009

  Books, Poetry

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