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/ 1 April 2008

Beer and bowling: Obama plays the regular guy

He sips beers, kisses babies, hangs out in bowling alleys and bottle feeds calves: Barack Obama is playing a ”regular guy” in a stealth attack on Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania. While best known for soaring rhetoric and rock star-style rallies, the pace-setting Democrat is adopting a more personal touch, turning on the charm on a six-day bus tour of the state.

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/ 31 March 2008

Clinton faces tough odds as Obama’s lead widens

United States Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton faced increasing odds on Monday as a new opinion poll showed rival Barack Obama consolidating his nationwide support. A Gallup tracking survey indicated the Illinois senator extending his lead over Clinton among Democrats nationally to 52% versus 42%, Obama’s largest lead of the year so far.

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/ 7 December 2004

Online university awarded MBA to a cat

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office on Monday sued an online university for allegedly selling bogus academic degrees — including an MBA awarded to a cat. Investigators paid for a bachelor’s degree for Colby Nolan — a deputy attorney general’s six year-old black cat — claiming he had experience including baby-sitting and retail management.