From Yahoo! News:

For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families: He has given up golf.

“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”

Bush said he made that decision after the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. official in Iraq and the organization’s high commissioner for human rights.

“I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man’s life,” he said. “I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, ‘It’s just not worth it anymore to do.’”

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Deal or No Deal has a special guest tonight:

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2415422/7493150

Yes. The President of the United States of America is making a guest appearance on a game show hosted by Howie Mandel.

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“Despite the concerns of many of its faculty members and historians nationwide, Southern Methodist University agreed to terms Friday for becoming the home of President Bush’s library and of an institute that will promote the president’s views and that will not be controlled by the university,” according to an Inside Higher Ed report.

That the institute will not be run by “standard academic procedures” has angered many in the education community, who fear it will not critically explore Bush’s legacy. Some faculty members are pushing for the institute to be placed off the campus.

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TheRoot.com has launched a piece that reveals the Bush family has a history of slave holding, a dark past which President Bush has not to date acknowledged. Contributor Edward Ball says that with Bush currently visiting West Africa, the moment is now for the president to speak about slavery, especially given his personal connection to slavery’s legacy.

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George W. Bush has danced the ‘ardha’ also known as the ’sword dance’ with Bahrain’s King Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifa, in Manama, Bahrain. The president also received a sword as a present during a welcome ceremony at the Sakhir Palace in Bahrain’s capital. The last time Bush danced with the natives, this is what happened:

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