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Caroline Kennedy, you know, has a bad speaking habit–a verbal tic… YOU KNOW ? The YOU KNOW Show : the counting game.CNN: DECEMBER 2008————————————Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author and attorney. She is a member of the influential Kennedy family and the only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.Kennedy graduated from Radcliffe College and worked at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her future husband, exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg. She went on to receive a law degree from Columbia Law School. Kennedy’s professional life has spanned law and politics as well as education and charitable work. She has also acted as a spokesperson for her family’s legacy and authored several works on civil liberties.In 2008, Kennedy endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama for President early in the primary race; she later served as co-chair of his Vice Presidential Search Committee, and addressed the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. After Obama’s victory and selection of Hillary Clinton as his choice for Secretary of State, Kennedy’s name surfaced as a possible appointment choice for the soon-to-be vacant Senate seat from New York.http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Kennedy

Author: SootySpin
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Added: December 30, 2008

This cameraman was detained by the Metropolitan Police at the Gaza demonstration at the Israeli embassy in London on 29 December 2008.There was no apparent reason for him to be detained but he was searched under the Terrorism Act. He was threatened with being handcuffed and details of contacts he had in his wallet were recorded by the police.

Author: btblondon
Keywords: “Terrorism act” “stop and search” police Gaza “civil liberties” “human rights” “media rights”
Added: December 30, 2008