Plan Unveiled for Protection of Consumers

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Plan Unveiled for Protection of Consumers
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s proposed consumer-protection agency would have broad oversight for a range of

products, beefing up the government’s regulation of credit cards, mortgages and gift cards, as well as expanding its

authority over financial firms.

Draft legislation unveiled Tuesday by the Treasury nike yeezyDepartment

would for the first time make a single entity, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, responsible for writing and

enforcing rules across a range of financial products used by consumers.
“This agency will have only one mission — to protect consumers,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said.

Securities products overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission and most of the insurance industry wouldn’t fall under

the new agency’s oversight, a Treasury official said. But the agency would have subpoena power and would be funded in part by

the financial-services industry.

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shoes in Congress to try to move the legislation quickly.

The measure is expected to draw opposition from the financial-services and business communities, which argue that the new

agency would stifle product innovation and prevent firms from offering tailored products to customers.

“Basically, the government is deciding what every bank in every circumstance should offer,” said Ed Yingling, president and

chief executive of the American Bankers Association.

The proposed new agency is part of the Obama administration’s efforts to revamp regulation of the U.S. financial system.

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mortgage-disclosure rules, and enforce recently enacted credit-card rules, Mr. Barr said. It could also potentially write

rules to require banks to get permission from customers before enrolling them in costly overdraft plans.

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Corruption plays key role in Iraqi justice

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Corruption plays key role in Iraqi justice
Reporting from Baghdad — Sheik Maher Sirhan says his interrogators tortured him with electric rods and demanded $50,000 in

cash to free him from the Iraqi jail where he is being held on terrorism charges.

But the Sunni Arab paramilitary leader, who has worked closely air yeezywith

U.S. forces, says he is hanging tough.

“I said that I’m not giving you the money,” Sirhan said in a phone conversation from his latest jail cell. “There is a

government and coalition forces. Justice will release me, not you.”

The accounts of Sirhan and two other prominent Sunni paramilitary leaders, one recently released and the other on the run,

provide a window into the role that political disputes and corruption appear to be playing in at least some arrests as the

American era in Iraq draws to a close, with this week’s departure air yeezy

shoesof most U.S. troops from the nation’s cities.

An Iraqi government official who works on security issues said the problem of Iraqi forces jailing people for ulterior

motives is a long-standing one.

“There are many cases of ransoms and deals,” the official said, adding that some Sunni paramilitary leaders who have fought

alongside American forces to eliminate such insurgent groups as Al Qaeda in Iraq have been jailed by Shiite Muslim-led

security forces at least in part for purposes of extortion.

Two months ago, several senior interrogators at the Defense Ministry’s Harthiya Detention Center were arrested for shaking

down businessmen they had jailed, the official added.

Questions of collusion between corrupt security forces and judges who issue warrants are so great that Iraq’s Supreme

Judiciary Council ordered an inquiry into the matter this month, the official and a Western advisor to the Iraqi government

confirmed.

The government official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, nike

yeezysaid security forces are also dealing with credible reports of torture and of undisclosed or secret prisons.

Last month, a Defense Ministry delegation found more than 100 detainees held secretly by the Iraqi army in the city of Mosul,

the official said, adding that 73 of them had been immediately picked back up by the Iraqi army after being released by the

Americans.

Despite such cases, Iraqi lawmakers say the army and police are making strides in ridding their forces of corruption, human

rights abuses and allegiance to political parties.

This month, Interior Minister Jawad Bolani announced that 43 police officers were under investigation on suspicion of

torturing detainees and Prime Minister Nouri Maliki had ordered an inquiry nike

yeezyinto prison abuse. But with a country clawing its way out of anarchy and facing myriad political, ethnic and

religious divisions, officials believe it will take years to right the system.

Some U.S. officials continue to express serious reservations about arrests that have been carried out, particularly of some

Sunni paramilitary leaders they have worked with.

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Sheik Maher Sirhan

The soldiers came for Sirhan in the Baghdad suburb of Hor Rajab early one morning in March, according to his family. Iraqi

forces knocked down the gate to his yellow brick villa. His wife describes watching them beat her husband with sticks, and

then take him away.

“It seemed like they wanted to kill him. They didn’t have to attackair yeezy

the house. They could have done it quietly,” says Shaada Rashid.

The arrest warrant, she said, stemmed from the testimony of three women who said their husbands were killed in the last two

years by Sirhan’s men. However, the husbands had been fighting for Al Qaeda in Iraq when they were killed, Rashid said.

U.S. military officers have confirmed that the Iraqi government has started enforcing warrants against Sunni paramilitary

commanders based on statements from relatives of slain fighters from the air

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At first, Sirhan was held in what some detainees have described as a secret jail. There, Sirhan said, he underwent 16 days of

beatings and torture, including the use of electric rods, to extract confessions. Officers gave him the option of paying

$50,000 to have his accusers drop their allegations.

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Why We Need Steve Jobs

Posted in BlogCheese Videos by zhang chunmei on June 23, 2009 at 8:33 pm
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Why We Need Steve Jobs
Love him or hate him, Apple needs its CEO back. Now.

I just spent an hour waiting in a line at an Apple store to buy a product I do not need. It’s the new top-of-the-line iPhone

3GS, and it costs $299, and I waited in line for it even though I already have last year’s iPhone 3G model, not to mention a

NEWSWEEK-issued BlackBerry, a low-end Nokia “feature phone,” and a new Palm Pre, albeit a loaner unit. Why did I do this?

Well, the new iPhone has a faster processor than its predecessor,air yeezy

and a better camera, and it shoots video. It also has more memory, so I can carry around more songs or movies. But really, I

did it because I trust that whatever Apple puts out will be worth the money. I did it because I always want to have the

latest and greatest from Apple. You see, Apple and its loyal customers (like me) have made a deal: it’ll keep improving its

products at a fantastic pace, and killing off its own products. In return, we’ll keep buying whatever it makes.
In the midst of all this, some people are wondering whether Apple might be better off if Steve Jobs did not return to work

from his sick leave. Jobs, Apple’s visionary CEO, has been on medical leave for six months and has received a liver

transplant. He’s now starting to come back to work, but there air yeezy

shoesare some folks who seem to wish he’d just stay away. That was kind of the gist of the story in this morning’s Wall

Street Journal, which praised Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook for doing such a bang-up job while the Dear Leader was

away. One Wall Street analyst said the loss of Cook would be more upsetting to him than the loss of Jobs. During his absence

Apple’s stock has soared 60 percent, and the company sold 1 million units of the iPhone 3GS during the product’s debut

weekend.

So who needs Steve Jobs? Especially since he’s known for being, well, difficult. He’s created a weird corporate culture of

secrecy about his health and everything else at Apple, as The New York Times pointed out this morning.

Times columnist Joe Nocera goes further and says that if Jobs and his directors won’t come clean about his health problems,

they’re guilty of “dereliction of duty” and should be forced to resign.
OK. Deep breath. Let’s admit that Jobs is a royal pain in the neck. Most of us probably wouldn’t want to work for him, or

live next door to him, or have to negotiate deals with him. nike yeezyHe’s

spoiled, and arrogant, and he has a terrible temper. But he’s also brilliant. Those lines at the Apple store today? Tim Cook

didn’t create those. Neither did Phil Schiller, Apple’s marketing chief, or Ron Johnson, the retail boss who runs the stores,

or even Jon Ive, Apple’s design guru. No, Steve Jobs is the one who gets those people to line up. He’s the one with the

vision. He’s the one who inspires the fanboys.

Cook is a great manager, a whiz when it comes to managing supply chains and keeping the trains running on time. He is vital

to Apple. Jobs cannot do what he does. But neither can Cook do what Jobs does. The fact is, Apple needs both of them. Forgive

me for the analogy I am about tonike yeezy make—but if you’ve seen the

latest Star Trekmovie, then you might understand how Cook and Jobs work together. Cook is Spock: low-key, cerebral,

methodical. He’s the Apollonian counterpart to Kirk, the Dionysian hothead. Kirk is impulsive—but nobody would deny that he,

not Spock, should be captain of the ship.

So it is with Steve Jobs and Apple, only more so. Apple is Steve; Steve is Apple. No CEO is as important to his company as

Jobs is to Apple. I would go farther and argue that not only air yeezydoes

Apple need Steve Jobs—the world needs him. In an age when the pace of technology innovation keeps accelerating so much that

we often feel overwhelmed, we need someone who can package new technology, make it accessible to us, and deliver it to us in

a way that makes it simple, useful, and reliable. How many things in your life work as well as your Macintosh, or your iPod,

or your iPhone? (Allowing for the fact that AT&T’s cell network stinks.)

So, yes, today I waited an hour in line for my new phone. As soon as I got it, right there in the store I typed in my account

information for MobileMe, Apple’s online service, and air yeezy shoeswatched

as all of my e-mail, contacts, calendar information, and bookmarks zipped through the air and filled up my phone. Like magic.

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Chris Brown’s Sentence ‘A Pretty Tough Deal,’ Legal Expert Says

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Chris Brown’s Sentence ‘A Pretty Tough Deal,’ Legal Expert Says
Immediately after Chris Brown’s plea deal was announced on Monday, speculation began as to whether the 20-year-old singer was

let off the hook too easily for allegedly assaulting his former
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Brown avoided jail time and instead was sentenced to 180 days of labor service in Virginia, five years of probation and was

ordered to attend a domestic abuse program for a year.

In addition to the deal that was reached, Brown was also issued a stay away order by the judge hearing the case. According

the guidelines of the stay away, Brown isn’t to have any contact with Rihanna during the duration of his probation period. In

the event both celebrities appear at a function, Brown is to remain a certain distance away from his one-time girlfriend and

Rihanna isn’t to contact him either.
Many think Brown received only a slap on the wrist for what he plead guilty to, but legal expert Peter T. Haven thinks Brown

may have actually gotten more than he bargained for.

“It sounds good on the surface — no jail time — but in many respects,
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Haven told MTV News. “He has to do 180 days of labor service. In California, for instance, we’re used to seeing guys in

jumpsuits picking up trash on the freeway or weeding. Labor service is not gonna be easy. You have to get up super early, you

have to be there almost before the sun comes up and work until 2 or 3 [p.m.]. Then he has to do 52 weeks of sitting in a

class for two hours every week. He almost gave up a year of his life — that’s an indication that the prosecution probably

had a pretty good case and [Brown] really didn’t want to do any jail time.”

Brown was offered 180 days of jail time as an alternative to labor service, which Haven described as “hot, tough, hard work.”

Haven suggested that jail time might have been an easier option for Brown. The singer will be formally sentenced on August 5

and Haven suspects the 180 days may be reduced to a shorter time span at
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sentence could easily be reduced even further for good behavior if Brown did serve time.

“It’s not a walk in the park [either way],” Haven explained. “But, say if he did jail time as a part of his plea, he probably

wouldn’t have served the full term — he probably would have done less. He would have gotten out earlier and the whole thing

would have been done. When you’re in jail, it’s also hard to violate the terms of your probation. When you voluntarily take

it upon yourself to take these things on yourself and have to show up yourself, that leaves a lot of room for error.”

Further complicating matters is that Brown’s 180 days of service could be
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jail stay could potentially be “easier and cleaner,” Haven said.

“Some lawyers have recommended jail to their clients,” he said. “Because if you screw up, you’re gonna get more than just 180

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Iran protests: phone footage gives brutality a worldwide audience

Posted in BlogCheese Videos by zhang chunmei on June 21, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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Iran protests: phone footage gives brutality a worldwide audience
With the foreign media forbidden to cover the demonstrations in Tehran and other Iranian cities, some of the most dramatic

pictures have come from the humble mobile phone. The footage – grainy and jerky – is the visual counterpart to the tweets,

emails and messages on social networking sites that have helped Air Max Shoesto

convey a measure of the turmoil in Iran, the most serious unrest in the country since the 1979 revolution.

One disturbing clip shows a woman, apparently called Neda, lying in a pool of blood [WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS VERY GRAPHIC

SCENES]. Many Iranians have drawn the attention of the world’s media to the footage, available on YouTube, to highlight the

brutality of the regime towards its own people.

An Iranian who emailed the Guardian wrote: “I’m writing to ask that you take the time to reference a young girl’s needless

death … I didn’t have the stomach to post the video, she literally West cigarettesdies on camera.”

Mobile phone footage also shows Iranians venting their anger at the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In

unprecedented scenes, demonstrators can be seen setting fire to pictures of Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Favorite new iPhone 3.0 apps: Slideshow

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Favorite new iPhone 3.0 apps: Slideshow
It’s one thing to talk about the iPhone’sAir Max Shoes improvements with the 3.0

software upgrade, and another to see how these puppies actually respond in real-life third-party applications.

The pressure is on, and not all of the applications that came across our paths made the cut. We bring you the best examples

from the early crop in a slideshow that shows you how new featuresjordan like in-app

purchases, push notification, and spinning iTunes from within an app plays out.

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NASA Will Try Launching Wednesday

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NASA Will Try Launching Wednesday
Trying to maximize the chances of getting two rockets off the ground this week, NASA on Monday scheduled the launching of the

space shuttle Endeavour for Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The scrubbing of the Endeavour’s first effort, on Saturday because of a hydrogen leak, created a traffic jam on the

launching pad because repairs required four days, UGG Adirondack

Boot IIso Wednesday was the earliest the Endeavour could be ready. But Wednesday was also the scheduled launching date

for NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from the neighboring Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Preparing the area for a launching takes a couple of days, and both missions would face delays until next month if they were

not begun by Saturday. For the lunar orbiter, the orbits of Earth and the Moon would not come back into alignment for two

weeks. For the shuttle, after June 20, the angle of the International Space Station’s orbit would put the Endeavour in the

sun for too many hours in a day. Mission managers could, however, launch on June 21 if the mission were shortened by a day,

to 15 days.

At a news conference Monday, a shuttle test director, Steven J. Payne, said that a shortened mission would eliminate the

fifth of five spacewalks and that at present the choice would be to delay the launching to July 11 when a full mission could

be flown.

“We really would like to get it done,” Mr. Payne said of theAir Jordan work scheduled

for the fifth spacewalk.

The leak on the Endeavor, in a line releasing excess gas pressure from the liquid hydrogen tank, was almost identical to one

that delayed the launching of the shuttle Discovery three months ago. After replacement of the seals, the Discovery took off

without a problem four days later.

“The repair is going well,” Mr. Payne said of the Endeavor.

Engineers found some small gaps in the seals that the hydrogen probably leaked through, but they do not understand the

underlying cause of the problem.

Forecasters give an 80 percent chance of favorable weather at 5:40 a.m. Wednesday when the Endeavour is scheduled to lift

off.

If the hydrogen leak recurs when the Endeavour’s fuel tanks are Air Jordan

1 filled Tuesday night and the launching is called off again, there would be enough time to try a launch of the Atlas V

rocket carrying the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on Thursday afternoon.

If the Endeavour takes off as scheduled, the earliest the lunar orbiter could launch would be Friday, when the weather

forecast is gloomier, with afternoon thunderstorms likely.

The Endeavour will bring up the final pieces to complete the Japanese laboratory on the space station.

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10 cool things about the iPhone 3G S

Posted in BlogCheese Videos by zhang chunmei on June 11, 2009 at 9:36 pm
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10 cool things about the iPhone 3G S
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that Apple has announced its latest iPhone — the iPhone 3G S.

The third iPhone to be released since the first was launched in the U.S. in 2007, Apple claims the iPhone 3G S is faster and

more powerful than the current iPhone 3G. Although it retainsAir Max an identical

form factor and design, the iPhone 3G S has some nifty new features. Here are 10 of the best:

1. It’s faster

Apple launched the iPhone 3G S by announcing it has a faster processor, more memory and “snappier performance”. Although the

iPhone 3G is no slouch, it can be a little sluggish when opening and closing applications. If Apple’s demo videos are

anything to go by, the iPhone 3G S will be a much zippier smartphone.

2. It has more memory

Apple will sell two models of the iPhone 3G S: 16GB and 32GB. There original iPhone came with 4GB, 8GB or 16GB of storage.

3. Video recording

Wow! A smartphone in 2009 that can record video? No way! Apple nike

shox r4 newcritics will point to the fact that the iPhone 3G can’t record video as an example of a phone that lacks some

basic features, but for potential iPhone owners the addition of video recording is a real plus.

4. Improved camera

The iPhone 3G S has a 3-megapixel camera with autofocus, compared with the iPhone 3G’s 2-megapixel, non-autofocus camera. It

still lacks a flash, but the increased megapixel count should slightly improve photos and tapping an area on the screen to

focus on is a cool feature that should make mobile photography easier.

5. You can talk to it

The iPhone 3G S introduces what Apple calls Voice Control, a voice recognition feature that allows you to make a call and

play music by speaking. Voice Control can find any entry in your contacts list, and users simply have to say a name or phone

number to make a call. For music, you can ask what song is playing Air

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current one.

6. It has a built-in compass

A built-in digital compass is another new feature of the iPhone 3G S. We aren’t sure exactly how often anyone would use this

as a standalone app, but when combined with Google Maps, the compass will rotate maps to always match the direction you’re

facing. Now that is pretty cool.

7. Internet tethering

The iPhone 3G S can now be used as a modem, connecting to a Mac or PC via USB or Bluetooth. Although AT&T in the US won’t be

supporting this feature, Optus is one Australian telco that has confirmed it will be. Telstra and Vodafone are yet to

announce whether they will offer tethering capability.

8. Accessibility features

Apple has included a number of features that help people with epi

leatherdisabilities use the iPhone 3G S. These include Apple’s VoiceOver function, which reads aloud what is on the

screen, a zoom function that magnifies up to five times, and a white on black display option that provides increased

contrast.

9. Nike+ iPod integration

Previously only available for selected iPod nano models, Apple’s Nike + iPod is a fitness system that involves a Nike shoe

communicating wirelessly with an iPod. The iPhone 3G S will be compatible with the system, which displays real time walking

or running statistics.

10. New headphones

The iPhone 3G S will include Apple’s remote headphones in the sales jordan

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Obama’s Health-Care Plan Would Include a Government Option

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Obama’s Health-Care Plan Would Include a Government Option
“The status quo is broken. We cannot continue this way,” Obama said in his weekly address. “If we do nothing, everyone’s

health care will be put in jeopardy.”

The president wants a health reform bill that covers all Americans on his desk by August, reaching for a goal that has eluded

presidents for decades — in a single summer.

He had planned to leave the details of health-care Zoom

Moire+reform to Congress, as long as they met his broad goals for a plan that would “lower costs, improve quality and

coverage, and also protect consumer choice.”

But now the White House says he’ll play a much stronger role, including demanding an optional government-run health plan.

“The president and many others believe that the availability of a public option alongside private options for people who need

health care is, is a positive thing,” presidential adviser David Axelrod told CBS. “He is going to promote that as part of

his plan.”

ABC News has learned that Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who has vowed to make health care “the cause of my life,” has drafted

a plan that would require employers to insure their workers. Winston cigarettesA Kennedy aide cautioned that was a “draft of a draft” and could be

changed.
Health insurers are skeptical of Democratic efforts that could present them with a government rival or restrict their

profits. Blue Cross Blue Shield of America is planning advertisements opposing a “government plan,” without mentioning that

the new plan would pose a rival to the company’s own.

Republicans — left out of the administration’s planning — have already drawn battle lines.

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, has taken to the Senate floor all week, repeatedly lambasting what he calls a

“government takeover of health care.”

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley on Sunday sent this angry message via Twitter: “pres obama you got nerve while u sightseeing

in paris to tell us ‘time to deliver’ on health care.”
This weekend the White House enlisted Obama’s old campaign Air Max

03network, now Organizing for America, organizing thousands of health-care reform parties from Boston to Los Angeles.

“As folks talk to their neighbors, they’re going to go out and talk to their congressmen and create this urgent reform this

year,” Hari Sevugan, a Democratic National Committee spokesman who also works with Organizing for America, told ABC News.

The health care crisis that drove supporters into Obama’s campaign last year is now driving them by the thousands into

health-care parties. What is less clear is whether when they walk out they will be able to make a difference.
Hundreds of thousands participated in a similar campaign to boost the president’s budget and stimulus plans, but that remains

a far cry from the 13 million Americans on his campaign list.

A few attendees at gatherings in Chevy Chase, Md., and Washington, D.C., expressed skepticism about the administration’s

plans.
“Before we can go out and beat the drums for an Obama health initiative, we have to know what it is,” one meeting attendee

said.

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supporters for the president’s budget and economic stimulus plans.

“There are tens of thousands of Americans gathered in libraries, in their living rooms — instead of staying outside —

talking about reforming the health-care system,” Sevugan said. “I think that is a great success.”

Politics Can Wait: The President Has a Date

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Politics Can Wait: The President Has a Date
The Obamas escaped Washington on Saturday in search of a quintessential New York evening: dinner and a Broadway show.
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restaurant, and at the Belasco Theater near Times Square for a performance of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” the August

Wilson play.

It was the Obamas’ first joint visit to the city as the first couple.

Times Square was even more frenetic than usual, as pedestrians lined several blocks waiting to catch a glimpse of Mr. and

Mrs. Obama. At the corner of Broadway and 44th Street, a crowd stood and watched expectantly, even though they were so far

away they could barely see the old-fashioned sign for the Belasco, illuminated in light bulbs.

“It’s going to be so cool to go to school and say I saw the president,” said Jessica Allen, a 16-year-old who landed a

prime spot across the street from the theater, hours before Air Jordanthe show began.

Just before 8 p.m., the crowd erupted in cheers as the couple arrived in a black limousine.

The audience inside buzzed with excitement over the Obamas, but more than 15 minutes later, the Secret Service was still

guiding theatergoers through metal detectors.

The presidential date night began with a late-afternoon flight from Andrews Air Force Base, with Mr. Obama wearing a dark

blue suit (no tie), and Mrs. Obama a black cocktail dress and a sleek updo, holding a turquoise clutch.

The couple left Air Force One behind, and instead took a smaller Gulfstream jet.

They landed at Kennedy International Airport at 4:45 p.m. Jordan basketball shoesand

after taking a quick helicopter ride to Lower Manhattan, the presidential motorcade snaked its way up to Blue Hill, a

restaurant off Washington Square Park that specializes in cuisine from the Hudson Valley. (It sounded suspiciously like the

choice of Mrs. Obama, who favors local food.)

The visit clogged streets in Greenwich Village, where passers-by crowded outside the restaurant to gawk at the Obamas. In the

Theater District, police cordoned off the entire block of 44th Street between Avenue of the Americas and Broadway, the site

of the Belasco.

Hours before the show began, tickets were still available at the box office. Outside the theater, one of the actors in the

play, Chad L. Coleman, signed autographs and spoke with reporters, wearing a broad smile and an Obama baseball cap.

He said he was excited and honored that Mr. Obama would be there.

“There are no words for it,” he said. “I told people I 360

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Mr. Coleman said Mr. Obama’s presence would be especially poignant, because Mr. Wilson, who died in 2005, could not be there

to see the president walk into the theater.

“I hope he’s smiling somewhere,” he said. “Because this is huge.”

While the Obamas’ visit to New York was considered private, there was some very public criticism of the trip. The Republican

National Committee suggested that that the outing was inappropriate and that Mr. Obama was out of touch, especially given the

looming bankruptcy of General Motors.

The committee issued a press release on Saturday afternoon that read, “Putting on a show: Obamas wing it into the city for

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Showing that the White House was sensitive to the criticism, a White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, quickly relayed a

message to reporters from Mr. Obama.

“I am taking my wife to New York City,” the president said in the statement, “because I promised her during the campaign

that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished.”

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