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Two weeks ago in this space I documented the good company in which Harvard President Claudine Gay finds herself as an aspiring plagiarist. Harvard worthies Doris Kearns Goodwin, Laurence Tribe, Charles Ogletree and Fareed Zakaria have all been forced to wear the Scarlet P just in the last 20 or so years. One Harvard plagiarist,…

The Chattanooga Area Food Bank is making sure neighbors in the Clifton Hills Community have enough to eat.

, was released with minimal fanfare. Although he sanitizes his experience as the publisher of Barack Obama’s  Dreams from My Father, Osnos lets slip a detail that could transform Obama’s reputation from “the best writer to occupy the White House since Lincoln” to the best plagiarist to occupy the White House before Biden. First, the sanitation. In a 2006 article, Osnos publicly scolded then-Sen. Obama for his “ruthlessness.” As Osnos recounted, hustling young agent Jane Dy...

Henry ferris was the editor. >> i was struck by how talented the writer was. >> now historian david marion pain stakenly traced the life of the first black president. barack obama, the story presents by some counts more than three dozen material discrepancies in the presidents rendering of his own life. case and point. dreams relate how the presidents paternal grandfather was deteened and tortured by british colonialists in a prison outside nairobi. after interviews and research he deems the tal...

independence avenue or to some of the smithsonian museums where its air conditioned and covered out of sight. >> they took what little shade there was, well positioned near the washington monument for the big show later on. all of them trying to stay cool. mostly succeeding. >> no shade. a lot of water. things are going good. >> fabulous, i love it. >> still a possibility of thunderstorms down here on the mall. but the likelihood has dropped to 10%. so it looks like that big show at th...

unlike years past few people chose to make a long day of it out here at the mall. apparently choosing instead to stay away until later when it might cool off a little bit. earlier today, in spite of the heat, it did look like the typical independence day. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: festivities began with old fashioned fourth of july parade. plenty of color and excitement for everyone. plenty of heat, too. nearby, a cooling center, one of several located around the site. staffed with doctors ...

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>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. we begin this evening with president obama. he met with some bankers today to talk about the economy. he was interviewed last night on "60 minutes" by steve kroft. >> my main message in todays meeting was very simple, that americas banks received extraordinary assistance from american taxpayers to rebuild their industry and now that theyre back on their feet, we expect an extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy. that starts with...

>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. we begin this evening with president obama. he met with some bankers today to talk about the economy. he was interviewed last night on "60 minutes" by steve kroft. >> my main message in todays meeting was very simple, that americas banks received extraordinary assistance from american taxpayers to build their industry and now that theyre back on their feet, we expect an extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy. that starts with f...

>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. we begin this evening with president obama. he met with some bankers today to talk about the economy. he was interviewed last night on "60 minutes" by steve kroft. >> my main message in todays meeting was very simple, that americas banks received extraoinary assistance from american taxpayers to rebuild their industry and now that theyre back on their feet, we expect an extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy. that starts with f...