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TDY_080823_Obamas_25_Things_300.appHeader = "Fact File:|President-elect Barack Obama";
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TDY_080823_Obamas_25_Things_300[i-1].body = "His high school basketball nickname at Punahou School in Hawaii was \"O'Bomber\" and he favored a left-hand, double-pump shot.";

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TDY_080823_Obamas_25_Things_300[i-1].body = "uring his community organizing days, some residents in Chicago dubbed him \"baby face\" because of his youthful looks.";

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TDY_080823_Obamas_25_Things_300[i-1].body = "His prized possession is a photograph of the cliffs of Oahu's South Shore, where his mother's ashes are scattered.";

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TDY_080823_Obamas_25_Things_300[i-1].body = "He announced his campaign for the presidency at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., where Abraham Lincoln gave his famous \"house divided\" speech.";

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TDY_080823_Obamas_25_Things_300[i-1].body = "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.";

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