notre dame university

notre dame university

Notre Dame awaits Obama's graduation speech.

President Barack Obama and a bitter debate over morality will collide under the University of Notre Dame's iconic Golden Dome when he arrives here this afternoon for a highly anticipated commencement address.
The national furor over whether such a prominent supporter of abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research should be honored at one of America's premier Catholic universities will come to a head with protests, prayer and boycotts.
Obama, meanwhile, will bring his well-established rhetorical ability and a history of reaching out to people of faith. Those techniques have in the past helped him confront equally contentious situations, such as when a controversial former pastor threatened his candidacy in 2008.

cleveland marathon

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Jennifer Sirken is following in her dad’s big footsteps in the marathon and she couldn’t have a better role model.
Bruce Schmidt has 58 marathons under his belt, but Jennifer’s five marathons aren’t exactly chopped liver. All five of Sirken’s marathons have been in Chicago, which is has had hot, uncomfortable conditions the last few years.
Today’s 32nd annual Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon will be her first at the marquee event.
Sirkens lives just a mile-and-a-half from Lake Front Park. She typically trains with co-worker Joanna Garfield, a New Jersey native who also runs marathons.To qualify for Boston, Sirken must crack the 3:40 qualifying standard for women 25-29 years old. To date, her fastest effort is 3:58:43, which came at last year in Chicago.