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Thu 11 Nov 2008Easy-going youth who put passion into politics
PROFILE:Barack Obama's mother instilled in her son a sense of pride in his mixed heritage, writes Denis Staunton
BARACK Obama, who remained unusually cool and unflappable throughout the long campaign, shed tears openly the day before the election when he spoke of his grandmother's death a few hours earlier.
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