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Published: 11/18/09

What Made Michelle Obama Anxious and Nervous

By  Lynn Sweet - Politics Daily
What Made Michelle Obama Anxious and Nervous

First Lady Michelle Obama revisited a stressful period of her youth on Monday, opening up to teen girls at a Denver mentoring event when asked about her views of standardized testing. Mrs. Obama used the question to talk about her own insecurities and anxieties about taking tests, focusing on her time as a high school student in Chicago. It's well known that Mrs. Obama was a high achiever. She went to a top public high school with selective enrollment, then to Princeton, and then to Harvard Law School. However, a continuing theme when she talks about her life is how she had her own struggles ...

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Published: 11/13/09

Michelle Obama Taking Mentoring Act On The Road

By  Lynn Sweet - Politics Daily
Michelle Obama Taking Mentoring Act On The Road

A few weeks ago, First Lady Michelle Obama launched a White House mentoring program for 20 girls from local high schools. If the lucky mentees have the common sense to cultivate relationships with the top White House women assigned as their mentors, they will have hit the networking jackpot. Interesting, I thought, but a very small project with just a few girls. Now, Mrs. Obama is going to expand her efforts and take her mentoring act regularly on the road, either monthly or every other month. Her first stop is in Denver on Monday. She will gather high-profile females there -- the city ...

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