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EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE, SO HERE’S BARACK OBAMA AWKWARDLY DANCING WITH SANTA By Emily Zanotti on 12.5.14 Is it just me, or has this been the longest week in history? Literally, everything is terrible. I don't even know why.

A Martha’s Vineyard photographer quietly deleted photographs of President Obama dancing during a birthday party after they went viral online. Editorial and fine art photographer Elizabeth Cecil posted two photos of the president on her Instagram account from the party that was closed to the press. The photos featured President Obama dancing and one of him offering a birthday toast to Ann Jordan at a party at the Farm Neck Golf Club. The party included about 150 guests, including former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton. The photo of the president dancing was discovered on Instagram early Thursday...

As he took the stage to usher Windows Vista to market, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last week tried to put the software's laborious birth behind him. The company's 71,000 employees -- and the entire PC industry, for that matter -- could be excused for breathing a sigh of relief, too. "It's an exciting thing to finally be here, and that's probably all I'll say about the past," Ballmer said at the unveiling from Nasdaq's cylindrical high-tech building in New York's Times Square. Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 also were introduced, and 30 more products will follow over the next...

August 9, 2004CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOKDoing the Locomotion, and a Ranchera or Two, With Kerrys and EdwardsesBy DAVID M. HALBFINGER LAGSTAFF, Ariz., Aug. 8 - Senator John Edwards pulled his dried-out contact lenses from his eyes. "Eighteen-hour days will do it," he said.A mariachi band had greeted Senator John Kerry's chartered train as it inched into Albuquerque at 11:57 p.m. on Saturday.A few feet away, the candidate's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, was also showing the effects of the grueling cross-country trip. Nevertheless, Mrs. Heinz Kerry started swaying and shaking to the beat. Then, as her husband worked a rope line, carefully scrawling...