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• CAMPAIGN 2008

  Finding His Faith

  Lisa Miller 7/12/2008 12:00:00 AM

  In 1981 Barack Obama was 20 years old, a Columbia University student in search of the meaning of life. He was torn a million different ways: between youth and maturity, black and white, coasts and continents, wonder and tragedy. He enrolled at Columbia in part to get far away from his past; he'd gone to high school in Hawaii and had just spent two years "enjoying myself," as he puts it, at Occidental College in Los Angeles. In New York City, "I lived an ascetic existence," Obama told NEWSWEEK in an interview on his campaign plane last week. "I did a lot of spiritual exploration. I withdrew from the world in a fairly deliberate way." He fasted. Often, he'd go days without speaking to another person.

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  HEALTH

  ‘I’m at the Top of My Game’

  Jamie Reno 4/3/2008 12:00:00 AM

  Sen. Arlen Specter, the five-term Republican legislator from Pennsylvania, was diagnosed with stage IV Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2005 and subsequently underwent a grueling chemotherapy regimen. But he never stopped working. In his new book, "Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate," Specter, who is now in remission, chronicles with characteristic candor and extra-dry wit what it was like to battle a potentially deadly disease while still working long days on the Hill.

• Governor Romney, Meet Governor Romney

  There is something a little too good to be true about Mitt Romney. The former governor of Massachusetts and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination is so buff and handsome in late middle age that when a brochure from a recent campaign showed him standing, bare-chested, on a swimming float, he was accused of sexually pandering to women voters. Romney, who is still married to his high-school sweetheart, doesn't drink, doesn't smoke and doesn't swear. His wife has said that, in private, he never even raises his voice.

• It Was the Veto Of a Lifetime

  Jonathan Alter

• It Was the Veto of a Lifetime

  Jonathan Alter

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