PETRAEUS AND CROCKER TESTIFY ON IRAQ IN WASHINGTON

Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Joe Biden (D-DE) (L) talks to Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) during a hearing on the status of developments in Iraq in Washington on September 11, 2007. Army Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker delivered testimony to the Committee. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

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Obamas pick private school for daughters

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The children of President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle will go to Sidwell Friends, a school favored by Washington's power elite, a spokeswoman said.

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