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“Obama to new grads: "No time for excuses"”

“Obama to new grads: "No time for excuses"”.

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“Obama to new grads: "No time for excuses"”

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  1. “Obama to new grads: "No time for excuses"”

  2. Past, present and future came together on a thunderstorm-filled Sunday, as President Barack Obama gave the commencement (graduation) speech at historically black, all-male Morehouse College (Georgia), where the Rev. Martin Luther King and many other prominent African-Americans spent their formative years. After opening with several one-liners, and more smiles than we've seen from him in the damage-control-filled recent weeks, Obama delivered a serious message to the class of 2013. During his speech the president offered “nobody is going to give you anything that you have not earned."

  3. In Other News A US Airways plane touched down without landing gear at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey early Saturday morning. The plane was carrying 31 passengers and three crew members. U.S. Airways spokesman Davien Anderson told CNN that no injuries were reported. The class of 1963 crowded in a rectangle on the dance floor, the memories of high school fresh on their minds as the band played in a sea of pink and blue hues. Aretha Franklin. Etta James. The Temptations. Just what you would expect to be playing at a 1960s prom. Societal tensions over race were so high in 1963 that the city canceled senior prom for five of the city's segregated high schools for blacks. The Historic 1963 Prom, held Friday and hosted by the city of Birmingham, closed one chapter for these Alabamans.

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