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US President Barack Obama has awarded himself a B plus for his first 11 months in office, stressing in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that there was still much to be done.

THERE WERE 700 of them pursuing their studies at various University of California campuses.

The degree to which the nostalgia for Franklin Delano Roosevelt that informs the prescriptions of those who favor more extensive and more expensive federal programs to right the economy is truly astounding.

A news analysis By BRIAN HAWKINS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it DECEMBER 1941 - World War II raged in Europe as Germany and Italy aggressively moved to exert their influence.

"Maybe you cana t buy love, but you can buy a job. Franklin Delano Roosevelt did it with the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.

United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard will join AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other union and nationalA leaders today to meet with President Barack Obama at the White House jobs summit .

ACCORDING to the most amusing gossip of the week , two people were employed to lower songstress Mariah Carey onto the sofa for her appearance on GMTV.

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I just learned that Franklin Delano Roosevelt actually re-set the dates of Thanksgiving a week earlier in 1939-1940 to extend the holiday-shopping seasons in those grim economic years.

The musical "Annie" is about a girl orphan, but includes two integral Daddy types.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians began taking down their statues of Josef Stalin, the mass murderer who killed millions of people.

What follows is an excerpt from Herb Gray's speech on the occasion of his receipt of the Award for Outstanding Service to Parliament from the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy.

On a hot and breezy day in August 1929, New York Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Vermont Gov.

The legacy of the New Deal and the economic policies of the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt is the subject of a four-day program this winter at Hillsdale College.

A few weeks ago, I skipped the candy and nuts in the fundraising catalog for Bainbridge High School and instead signed up to buy a leather wallet.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was someone who has left an impression on acclaimed actor Edward Asner.

In Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policies, Ayn Rand saw the makings of a fascist nation.

The Great Depression gripped the nation in 1932 as President Herbert Hoover was voted out of office.

In a darkened theater, as an audience of young, middle-aged and senior adults took in the offering, I heard a stifled gasp, a series of sniffles and semi-silent sobs.

Today is Sunday, November 8, the 312th day of 2009. There are 53 days left in the year.