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President Barack Obama, courting young voters crucial to his reelection,
told a rowdy college-age crowd at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill on Tuesday that he knows first-hand about the burden of
student loans because he only managed to pay his back a scant eight years ago.
"Michelle and I, we've been in your shoes," Obama, who turns 51 in
August, told a cheering, capacity crowd of 8,000 at Carmichael Arena.
"Check this out, all right. I'm the president of the United States. We only finished paying off our student loans
off about eight years ago. That wasn't that long ago. And that wasn't
easy--especially because when we had Malia and Sasha, we're supposed to
be saving up for their college educations, and we're still paying off
our college educations," he said.
Dick Clark united television and rock 'n' roll and created a legend in American Bandstand
Dick Clark,
whose “American Bandstand” made him rich, famous, influential and
sometimes controversial by marrying rock ‘n’ roll with television, died
Wednesday morning at the age of 82.
His agent, Paul Shefrin, said he suffered a massive heart attack. He had struggled with health issues since suffering a a serious stroke in 2004..
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh congratulates scientists on
the successful test-fire of a nuclear-capable missile that can reach
Beijing and Eastern Europe.
A father and two children in a trailer, plus two other people who
were in a car in the same Oklahoma town, were killed when a string of
tornadoes tore through parts of the Midwest on Saturday and early
Sunday.
Those fatalities in
Woodward are the only ones known to have resulted from this weekend's
storms. But millions of people were bracing for even more severe weather
late Sunday afternoon and night.
The states in the
"bull's-eye" for the most dangerous conditions will likely be Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Iowa, according to the Storm Prediction Center. Bigger
cities such as Green Bay, Chicago, St. Louis, Little Rock and Houston
could see isolated tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds.
Bill Cosby, right, is confident President Obama will win reelection.
(Eva Hambach / AFP/Getty Images / April 15, 2012)
Entertainer Bill Cosby defended President Obama on Sunday, saying that his critics do not acknowledge the obstacles he has faced in office.
“I'm disappointed at people who don't look at the woes and the trouble given to this man,” Cosby told CNN’s
Candy Crowley, referring to allies on the left who have complained
about the administration.
“People blatantly speaking out against his
color, wasting time, starting up new stories about whether or not he was
born here, saying things that they can't prove.”
The actor and comedian said he feels sometimes that opponents want to make Obama’s job like “the one that Sisyphus had.”
"When you see that he made
promises and said things and the people who were supposed to be working
with him didn't. The people who were supposed to be working, even for
another party, didn't care about the American people," he said. "They
wanted to get him."
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A four-month-long investigation into illegal pornography and
illegal sexual acts with minors ended Saturday with the arrest of four
people by Surfside Beach police.
Tim Yaccarino, 58, and Pam
Yaccarino, 42, both of Surfside Beach, and Jessica Grounds, 22, of
Conway, and Amber Martin, 21, of Myrtle Beach, were all apprehended in
the sting. All were charged with first-degree sexual exploitation of a
minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Tim
Yaccarino was also charged with conspiracy to commit lewd act upon a
child and harboring a runaway. Pam Yaccarino and Martin were also
charged with lewd act upon a child.
Surfside Beach Police Chief Mike Frederick said Saturday night that
Tim Yaccarino was the “primary target” in the investigation. He came to
the department’s attention late last year after being arrested in a
previous case involving a runaway juvenile. As a result of that case,
the department began watching Yaccarino and building a larger case
against him.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — For decades, the black caddies at Augusta National Golf
Club — required by the club’s rules and treasured for their nuanced
knowledge of the course’s topography — stood as a striking symbol of the
sport’s segregated state.
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Arnold Palmer, center, and Ben Hogan, right, at Augusta, where black caddies were once required.
“As long as I’m alive,” said Clifford Roberts, one of the club’s
founders in 1933 and a longtime Masters chairman, “all the golfers will
be white and all the caddies will be black.”
In 1997, 20 years after Roberts’s death, Tiger Woods, with a white caddie, won the first of his four Masters championships,
shattering the mirror that Roberts’s vision reflected. Woods, who has
won 14 majors, changed the face of golf in more ways than one. Not only
is the best golfer of this era not white, Woods’s success has helped
pushed the black caddie to the brink of extinction.
SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical
benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years,
scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are
even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of
people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter.
It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills
not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.
This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding
of bilingualism through much of the 20th century. Researchers,
educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an
interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child’s academic and
intellectual development.
President Obama plans to blast the proposed Republican budget today
as "a Trojan Horse" that is promoted as a deficit reduction plan, but is
"really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country."
"By
gutting the very things we need to grow an economy that's built to
last -- education and training; research and development -- it's a
prescription for decline," Obama plans to say, according to excerpts
released by the White House.
