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The Homicide Report (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Marvin Nicholson, a 13-year-old black youth, was shot and killed Monday, Oct. 12, in the 900 block of South Grandee Avenue in Compton, according to Los Angeles County coroner's officials. Marvin was shot about 12:30 p.m. when someone jumped out...
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Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... and was in the air at 11:44 p.m. Wednesday. He was joined by Denis McDonough, Robert Gibbs and Marvin Nicholson. An Air Force C-17 was scheduled to arrive at Dover AFB in Delaware at 12:19 a.m. EST. The fallen consist of 7 U.S. Army soldiers and 3 Drug Enforcement Agency agents killed when their MH-47 Chinook crashed at Darreh-ye-bum, and 8 U.S. soldiers killed when their STRYKER...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The White House scored a stroke for gender equality in sports on Sunday. President Barack Obama's chief domestic policy adviser, Melody Barnes, became the first woman to play in the president's golf foursome. She joined the president, Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director, and Dr. Eric Whitaker, the executive vice president at the University of Chicago Medical Center, for ...
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The Swamp (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... wore a baseball cap and dark, long-sleeved shirt. The White House trip director, golf regular Marvin Nicholson, loaded the clubs. At first, the White House suggested this wasn't a first for the president. Then, spokesman Bill Burton allowed: "He golfed with women on the campaign trail,'' but not in office until today, with Barnes. They made a day of it. The motorcade returned...
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Obama Foodorama (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... says is 24 games of presidential golf since January. ( Above: Barnes and White House Trip Director Marvin Nicholson heading for the links with the President ) Female White House staff interviewed for the Times piece say they have absolutely no gender-bias issues with the President, and point out that they haven't seen it as a problem that the president's sports games have only included...
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Black Political Thought (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... short-sleeve shirt. Barnes was wearing a baseball cap, dark long-sleeve shirt and beige pants. Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director, loaded the golf clubs into the motorcade. The group headed for the course at Fort Belvoir on a chilly but clear day in Washington. They arrived just after 1 p.m. for several hours of golf. Questions about the president's chumminess with the...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... a perception fed with lower-level aides like personal assistant Reggie Love and trip director Marvin Nicholson who have close personal relationships with the president and play basketball and golf with him.
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Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... the physician who is an executive vice president at the University of Chicago Medical Center and Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director. At the White House, Barnes was observed taking her clubs out of an SUV and walking into the White House along the colonnade. She did not stop to comment on the game. Katherine J. Hogan called a full lid at 6:45 p.m. Lynn Sweet
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Political Punch (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
... a perception fed with lower-level aides like personal assistant Reggie Love and trip director Marvin Nicholson who have close personal relationships with the president and play basketball and golf with him.
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Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Marvin Nicholson was the second person killed this year in a short stretch of one street. The city's homicide toll so far this year is higher than for all of 2008, though still near record lows. Lakeisha Hamm has not slept in days. Each time she lies down, the killing of her 13-year old son last week in Compton replays in her mind like a movie.
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Marvin Nicholson was the second person killed this year in a short stretch of one street. The city's homicide toll so far this year is higher than for all of 2008, though still near record lows. Lakeisha Hamm has not slept in days. Each time she lies down, the killing of her 13-year old son last week in Compton replays in her mind like a movie.
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Susan Walsh AP Melody Barnes, President Barack Obama's chief domestic policy adviser, left, and White House trip director Marvin Nicholson carry their golf clubs as they prepare to leave the White House, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009 to play golf with President Obama. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Share WASHINGTON — The White House scored a stroke for gender equality in sports on Sunday.President Barack...
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VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... as devoted to golf as he is to his beloved basketball. “Basketball and golf are his one-two,” Marvin Nicholson says. “Now, he wants to play all the best courses: St. Andrews, Pebble Beach, Bethpage Black.“He usually shoots in the mid-90s, sometimes the low 90s,” Nicholson says. “He’d be better if he could play more. . . . He’s pretty long off the tee . . . very good around...
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... of golf at the Army-run Fort Belvoir club outside Washington. The foursome was made up of Obama, Marvin Nicholson, a former golf caddy who organises all the president's trips, Dr Eric Whitaker, a personal friend of the president's who is executive vice-president at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and Melody Barnes (above, with Bill Clinton and Brad Pitt). They started at...
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Bradenton.com: Politics (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
President Barack Obama's chief domestic policy adviser, Melody Barnes, became the first woman to play in the president's golf foursome. She joined the president, Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director, and Dr. Eric Whitaker, the executive vice president at the University of Chicago Medical Center, for a round on the Army's Fort Belvoir golf course.