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What should be his first order of business once President-elect Obama takes office?

Cutting taxes/economic recovery.
Promoting peace in Israel/Gaza.
Ending the war in Iraq.
Creating jobs/dealing with unemployment.
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1. Why is there an authorship problem with Shakespeare?
2. How are justices to the U.S. Supreme Court elected? Is this a good or a bad thing?
3. I saw some old guy in a soldier's uniform selling fake red flowers. He said it was for Veterans Day. What's the connection?
4. My grandmother says when she was a kid in China, she became Catholic because of the Mary Knows nuns. I tried to look that up on the Internet but couldn't find anything. Can you help?
5. How did ounce come to be abbreviated as oz.?
6. Why did Cromwell dissolve the first Protectorate parliament?
7. Why does The Great Depression end when the United States enters World War II?
8. What place did the underworld have in Egyptian mythology?
9. Can you explain Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in words that a teen can understand?
10. Who was the most famous mathematician?
11. Where did Christopher Columbus land when he reached the Americas?
12. What did Abraham Lincoln mean by "A house divided against itself cannot stand"?
13. What did W.E.B. Du Bois mean when he wrote of second-sight?
14. What is the difference between an atheist and an agnostic?
15. What is the highest mountain in New Mexico?
16. Who had control of more states during the American Civil War, the North or the South?
17. How did Zeus become ruler of the Greek gods?
18. Why does Santa Claus have so many names ? Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, and Kris Kringle?
19. What is antidisestablishmentarianism?
20. What is Leningrad known as today?
21. Who is the only U.S. President who never won a nationwide election?
22. What are the renaissance features/characteristics in Hamlet?
23. Who were the leading figures in the Classical period of music?
24. How did people make up the lb. abbreviation for pounds?
25. What was the "final solution" in the book Night by Elie Wiesel?
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