Andrew romano newsweek biography of barack obama
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When it comes to the policies and politics of Barack Obama, it's no secret that liberals and conservatives don't see eye to eye. But according to behavioral sciencist Eugene Caruso of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, these differences in perspective may literally be a difference in perception. In a new study, Caruso and colleagues Emily Balcetis of New York University and Nicole Mead of Tillberg University asked a group of undergraduates which of a series of photographs of both Obama--some of them secretly lightened and darkened--best represented who he is as a person. The results were striking: while self-described liberals tended to pick the digitally lightened photos of the president, self-described conservative students more frequently picked the darkened images. The more you agree with a politician, in other words, the lighter his skin tone seems; the less you agree, the darker it becomes. To discuss how political affinities influence perception--and how po
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Andrew Romano
Andrew Romano is a senior writer at Newsweek, where he reports on politics, culture, and food for the print and web editions of the magazine. Recent articles include a dispatch from Albuquerque on the making of Breaking Bad, an inre look at Obama’s 2012 reelection machine in Chicago, a psychological portrait of Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney, an essay on how the Tea Party misunderstands and misuses the Constitution, and a series of in-depth profiles of influential conservatives, including Bobby Jindal, Mark Sanford, Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, Scott Brown, and John Boehner. From October 2007 to November 2008, Romano traveled with the 2008 presidential candidates and filed fyra or fem items a day—reportage, analysis and humor—to Stumper, his Newsweek campaign blog, while continuing to write political stories for the weekly magazine. Thanks to Stumper, which won MINOnline’s Best Consumer Blog award and was cited as one of t
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Early life and career of Barack Obama
Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii[1] to Barack Obama, Sr. (1936–1982) (born in Oriang' Kogelo of Rachuonyo North District,[2]Kenya) and Stanley Ann Dunham, known as Ann (1942–1995) (born in Wichita, Kansas, United States).[3]
Obama spent most of his childhood years in Honolulu, where his mother attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Obama had a close relationship with his maternal grandparents. In 1965, his mother remarried to Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia. Two years later, Dunham took Obama with her to Indonesia to reunite him with his stepfather. In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to attend Punahou School, from which he graduated in 1979.
As a young adult, Obama moved to the contiguous United States, where he was educated at Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School. In Chicago, Obama worked at various times as a