"Barack Hussein Obama: last week, sixty-five million Americans turned a liability -- a moniker so politically inflammatory that the full recitation of it was considered foul play -- into a global diplomatic asset, a symbol of the resurgence of America's ability to astonish and inspire."
--Hendrik Hertzberg in the New Yorker
On Turning 71 in 2017: Reporting Yet
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*My 71st Year*
*After surmounting three-score and ten,*
*With all their chances, changes, losses, sorrows,*
*My parents' deaths, the vagaries of my life,...
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