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Barack Obama
"The West Wing": Season Eight, unscripted
The popular White House drama returns with an all-new cast, an anything-can-happen storyline - and its first Asian.
For a good six years of the Bush administration, Democrats – denied of the presidency twice – were left to languish in the solace of “The West Wing” on Wednesday nights. Veteran actor Martin Sheen as a grandfatherly president of the Democrat persuasion fronted a charismatic crew of staff in the White House in weekly episodes of political intrigue, international conflicts and ethical dilemmas.
Day 100, February 7, 2009
THE CLOSING CHAPTER
It was a speech worth waiting for and those who heard it are going to come away liking Obama even more.
In his best-selling self-help book " How to win friends and influence people", Dale Carnegie outlined six ways to make people like you.
Day 99, February 6, 2009
BIDING FOR BIDEN
On the agenda weekend for the general is a high-level conference to be held in Germany this weekend, which will be attended by world leaders including the German chancellor herself, Angela Merkel. This time Obama will not be there, still the anticipation is high for the visit of his second-in-command, Vice President Joe Biden. For Biden will arrive in Europe for this weekend's Munich Security Conference bearing important news. WWOD? What will Obama do? For foreign policy at least.
Day 84, January 22, 2009
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 18:08 — Dan-Chyi ChuaINAUGURATION DAY
The 44th President of the United States of America - Barrack Obama - is sworn in Washington D.C. today.
Obama: An Asian American?
They are calling him the first post-racial president. But theasiamag.com is playing the race card and claiming him as one of our own.
Post-racial and bi-coastal: in the four short years since catapulting to global recognition from little-known Chicago politician, Barack Obama, the junior US Senator from Illinois, has meticulously outlined himself as many things to many people.
The "A" List (Part 1 of 2)
Ten Asians making the news in America
From shore to shining shore, America is made up of successive generations of immigrants. But it has always found it difficult to accommodate those who came via the Pacific instead of the Atlantic.
The "A" List (Part 2 of 2)
Ten Asians making the news in America.
5. John Choon Yoo — The President's legal (com)pass to Guantanamo Bay
Cassel: If the President deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?
Aiming for the top
Indian-American Piyush “Bobby” Jindal is set for a meteoric rise in American politics.
Many Indians aspire to be President of India. But only one Indian, at least for the moment, can aspire to be the President of the United States.
Day 66, January 4, 2009
WE TWO CHIEFS
The Times of London ran an interview praising everyone's favourite soldier today and brought to mind again why his strategy worked where others failed.
Day 13, November 12, 2008
FRIEND OR FOE?
Lieutenant General Talat Masood may be retired from the Pakistan Army, but he sounds a fair warning to General Petraeus and his incoming Commander-in-Chief.
TRACK THE FIRES
