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Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("1","His high school basketball nickname at Punahou School in Hawaii was \"O'Bomber\" and he favored a left-hand, double-pump shot.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("2","He has two Grammy awards for recording his best-selling books, \"Dreams from My Father\" and \"The Audacity of Hope.\"");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("3","His mother's name was Stanley Ann Dunham — her father, Stanley, wanted a boy.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("4","His mother and father, Barack Obama Sr., met in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii. She was 18. He was a scholarship student from Kenya.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("5","His father, a goat herder as a child, was a member of the Luo tribe and came from a village in Kenya.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("6","As a child in Indonesia he was introduced to snake meat and roasted grasshopper. His stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, presented him with a pet monkey, \"Tata.\"");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("7","While living in Indonesia, his mother would wake him at 4 a.m. for three hours of English lessons before he went to school.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("8","His maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, was a \"Rosie the Riveter\" at a Boeing Co. plant in Wichita, Kan., during World War II.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("9","While a student at Harvard Law School, he applied to appear in a black pride pinup calendar. He was rejected by an all-female committee.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("10","He met his wife, Michelle, while she was his adviser one summer when he worked at a corporate law firm in Chicago. She also is a Harvard Law School graduate.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("11","On his first date with his wife, they had ice cream at a Baskin-Robbins in Chicago. (One of his jobs as a teen was scooping ice cream at a Baskin-Robbins.)");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("12","His favorite movies include \"Casablanca,\" \"The Godfather\" films, \"Lawrence of Arabia\" and \"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.\"");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("13","During his community organizing days, some residents in Chicago dubbed him \"baby face\" because of his youthful looks.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("14","He considers his worst habit to be checking his Blackberry.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("15","He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, but he got a D in eighth-grade French.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("16","His prized possession is a photograph of the cliffs of Oahu's South Shore, where his mother's ashes are scattered.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("17","He is a good — but cautious — poker player who joined other lawmakers in Springfield, Ill., for weekly games. They dubbed their group \"The Committee.\"");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("18","His music favorites include Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Yo-Yo Ma, Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z and jazz legends Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. One of his favorite songs during the political season is Dylan's \"Maggie's Farm.\"");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("19","He carries good luck charms, including a gambler's lucky chit, a tiny Madonna and child, and a bracelet belonging to a soldier deployed in Iraq.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("20","He announced his campaign for the presidency at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., where Abraham Lincoln gave his famous \"house divided\" speech.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("21","His office wall has a framed original program from the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his \"I have a dream\" speech. Obama will accept the Democratic presidential nomination on the 45th anniversary of that address.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("22","He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("23","He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("24","He has promised his daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, a dog this fall — win or lose.");
Pol_080823_Obama_25_Things.rows[i++] = new Array("25","He doesn't like to shop.");

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