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Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:46 a.m.

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Obama’s lawyer talks campaign finance 2.13.09

High-powered lawyers who serve high-powered individuals are not strangers to the halls of Yale Law School — but no one can top Bob Bauer’s client.

Professor to write Obama’s inaugural poem 1.12.09

Last semester, Elizabeth Alexander ’84 introduced the presidential race into the curriculum for her African American Studies course “Freedom and Identity in Black Cultures.” She added President-elect Barack Obama’s book, “Dreams from My Father,” to her syllabus and invited guest lecturers to speak about the significance of race. And then Obama won.

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At Slifka, Carrion confirms Obama tap 12.07.08

Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr. suggested in a talk at Yale on Friday that he is being tapped for a top post in the administration of President-elect Barack Obama, the News has learned.

Breidbart: Sustain the budget via sustainability 12.05.08

President-elect Barack Obama hosted the nation’s governors in Philadelphia on Tuesday and Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell was amongst those who attended. The group chatted about how the federal government can help the states make it through the ongoing economic crisis and what sort of relief might be feasible. As for the terms proposed: The governors want $136 billion for...

Eli photographs Obama 12.02.08

About 27 months ago, photojournalist Scout Tufankjian ’00 sat in a dark room, begrudgingly waiting for a senator from Illinois. Unbeknownst to her at the time, that night would impact the next two years of her life. Now, just a few months before Barack Obama is inaugurated as president of the United States, Tufankjian will share the images she took on the campaign trail...

Yale for Change leaves its mark 11.20.08

Jacob Koch ’10 first met Barack Obama six years ago. The then-Illinois state senator delivered a speech at an anti-war rally he attended in Chicago. At that moment, Koch was inspired to work for the man who would become America’s 44th president.

SENATOR BARACK OBAMA ELECTED 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 11.05.08

CHICAGO — Sen. Barack Obama shattered racial barriers and ushered in a new era of American politics on Tuesday by decisively defeating his Republican rival to become the 44th president of the United States of America.

Obama, the 47-year-old son of a Kansan mother and a Kenyan father, topped Sen. John McCain of Arizona to conclude the longest, most expensive...

U. Chicago recalls ‘rising star’ 11.05.08

CHICAGO — When he was a professor of law at the University of Chicago, president-elect Barack Obama’s favorite classroom was Room V, the Harry A. Bigelow lecture hall. It is an airy and windowed space, one of the largest at the school, according to a University of Chicago facilities administrator who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the...

Endorsements tilt toward Dems. 11.03.08

The lopsided tally of newspaper endorsements for the Democratic candidate in this year’s presidential election is a stark contrast from the record of previous election years, editorial editors around the country said.

News' View: Obama for president 11.03.08

As we head to the polls on Tuesday, we have a clear choice to make. We can continue the hubris, greed and intolerance of the last eight years. Or as the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. ’49 DIV ’56 urged, we can choose humility, and the new direction that comes with it. Barack Obama can lead us there.