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Obama's big task: managing the best, brightest

Jan. 11, 2009
In less than two months, President-elect Barack Obama has assembled one of the brainiest and most experienced White House teams in U.S. history - populated with a Nobel laureate, four-star generals, a former Fed chairman, a former Treasury secretary, two...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler