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* {{cite news |author=Seelye, Katharine Q.|date=October 24, 2006|title=Obama offers more variations from the norm|newspaper=The New York Times |page=A21 |url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E2DB173FF937A15753C1A9609C8B63 |accessdate=October 29, 2006}}

* {{cite news|author=Romano, Lois|date=January 3, 2007|title=Effect of Obama's candor remains to be seen|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=A1|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/02/AR2007010201359.html|accessdate=January 14, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://video.pbs.org/video/2288869682/|title=FRONTLINE The Choice 2012|publisher=PBS|date=October 9, 2012|accessdate=October 29, 2012}}</ref>

 

Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend [[Occidental College]]. In February 1981, he made his first public speech, calling for Occidental to [[disinvestment from South Africa|divest from South Africa]] in response to its policy of [[apartheid]].<ref name="Occidental" /> In mid-1981, Obama traveled to Indonesia to visit his mother and half-sister Maya, and visited the families of college friends in Pakistan and India for three weeks.<ref name="Occidental" /> Later in 1981, he transferred as a [[Junior (education)|junior]] to [[Columbia College, Columbia University]] in New York City, where he majored in [[political science]] with a specialty in [[international relations]]<ref>{{cite news|author=Boss-Bicak, Shira|date=January 2005|title=Barack Obama '83|magazine=Columbia College Today|issn=0572-7820|url=http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jan05/cover.php|accessdate=October 1, 2006}}</ref> and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1983. He worked for a year at the [[Business International Corporation]],<ref>{{cite web|author=Obama, Barack|year=1998|title=Curriculum vitae|publisher=The University of Chicago Law School|url=http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/obama/cv.html|archivedate=May 9, 2001|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010509024017/http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/obama/cv.html|accessdate=October 1, 2006}}

* Mendell (2007), pp. 62–63.</ref><ref name="Who's Who 2008">{{cite book|editor=Chassie, Karen |year=2007|title=Who's Who in America, 2008|page=3468|place=New Providence, NJ|publisher=Marquis Who's Who|isbn=978-0-8379-7011-0}}</ref>

 

 

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