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I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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