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WASH POST prints Obama speechwriter's cell number...

Feb. 27, 2009
WASH POST prints Obama speechwriter's cell number...(First column, 2nd story, link)
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler